On 2024-07-27 at 22:38:22, Michael Salman wrote:

Thank you for filling out a Git bug report!
Please answer the following questions to help us understand your issue.

What did you do before the bug happened? (Steps to reproduce your issue)
Using visual studio created a project and initialized it. Git works fine
under vs
What did you expect to happen? (Expected behavior)
Using a command prompt I cd to where the repository is and give the command
git status.
What happened instead? (Actual behavior)
It reports that this is not a valid repository. I noticed that the
repository does not have a .git file
What's different between what you expected and what actually happened?
Using command prompt if I cd to a different repository (which has a .git
file) the git status command works fine

A Git repository with a working tree doesn't strictly have to have a
`.git` file or directory, but if you don't have one, you have to
explicitly set configuration options or environment variables to make
this work.  Since I very much doubt that was done here, it sounds like
this actually is not a Git repository, and Visual Studio has a bug that
causes it to either misconfigure Git or not work with it properly.  It
should at least provide you sufficient information to allow you to
determine how it initialized the repository and where it's storing the
data so you can properly work with it using the command line tools.

In any event, this sounds like a Visual Studio bug and not a Git bug, so
I'd report it to the appropriate Visual Studio issue tracker.  I don't
think there's anything we can do here, since we don't know how Visual
Studio is invoking Git or how it's configuring the repository.
-- 
brian m. carlson (they/them or he/him)
Toronto, Ontario, CA