[Bug]: Fatal error when using lakectl local and Git together

[kesarwam]

What happened?

What actually happened, including error codes if applies.
Received fatal error when using lakectl local and git together

Steps to Reproduce:
Run following commands:

git init ./lakefs_local_git
cd lakefs_local_git
lakectl repo create lakefs://amit-local s3://treeverse-ort-simulation-bucket/amit/amit-local
lakectl local init lakefs://amit-local/main/ .
git commit -m "Initialize lakeFS"
mkdir -p data
echo 'test' > ./data/test.txt
git status
lakectl local status
lakectl local commit ./data -m 'Added data file'
git status

Received following error with last git status command:
fatal: not a git repository (or any of the parent directories): .git

Also, lakectl local commit ./data -m 'Added data file' command uploads .git folder and .gitignore file to lakeFS repository even though these files are not in ./data folder.

Expected behavior

No response

lakeFS version

v0.106.2

How lakeFS is installed

lakeFS Cloud

Affected clients

No response

Relevant log output

No response

Contact details

amit.kesarwani@treeverse.io

[kesarwam]

If I run lakectl local init also on a particular directory then I don't face any problem:
lakectl local init lakefs://amit-local/main/ ./data

So, closing this issue.

[kesarwam]

it is not a git fatal issue anymore. But we should warn/fail the user who try to use lakectl local on Git repo directory.