title: github workflow - fatal: not a git repository (or any of the parent directories): .git
body: <p>I have a master branch and a dev branch for current development(local working copy). I need to merge changes from master onto my dev branch. Prior to merge I ran git stash and discovered the following error:</p>
  
  <p><code>fatal: Not a git repository (or any of the parent directories): .git</code></p>
  
  <p>To investigate this error I ran the following commands:
  <code>git status</code>
  <code>git branch</code>
  <code>git remote -v</code>. All produced the same error <code>fatal: Not a git repository (or any of the parent directories): .git</code></p>
  
  <p>I also tried resetting the origin of my branch <code>git remote set-url origin <a href="https://github.com/Connexions/oer.exports.git" rel="noreferrer">https://github.com/Connexions/oer.exports.git</a></code> which produces the same result:  <code>fatal: Not a git repository (or any of the parent directories): .git</code></p>
  
  <p>I cannot commit any changes from my local working directory onto my dev branch either.</p>
  
  <p>Does anyone have any suggestions on how to correct this issue.</p>