Dvc: Error: not a dvc repository (checked up to mount point ...)

[denfromufa]

Please provide information about your setup
DVC version(i.e. dvc --version), Platform and method of installation (pip, homebrew, pkg Mac, exe (Windows), DEB(Linux), RPM(Linux))

pip install git+https://github.com/iterative/dvc -U --user

Following tutorial:

https://dvc.org/doc/get-started/configure

dvc remote add -d dvc_remote /data/gs/hp/dvc_data

Error: not a dvc repository (checked up to mount point '/data/gs')

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dvc --version
0.31.1

'Linux-3.10.0-693.el7.ppc64le-ppc64le-with-redhat-7.4-Maipo'

[pared]

Hi @denfromufa did you run dvc init beforehand? It is specified in the previous section of get-started.

[denfromufa]

My bad: I was in the parent directory, not the directory for dvc repo. But the error message may be improved I guess.

[denfromufa]

git init and dvc init were done properly

[efiop]

@denfromufa Glad it works now :) How do you think we could improve that error message, though?

[denfromufa]

The current directory is not dvc directory. I was thinking that the remote is not dvc directory and hence got confused. Also because of testing I used the same local disk mount for both.

[efiop]

@denfromufa I see. How about something like Error: current directory is not a dvc repository (checked up to mount point '/data/gs')? What do you think?

[denfromufa]

Thanks for quick response, I hope this is an improvement

[efiop]

@denfromufa Thanks for the feedback! :slightly_smiling_face: We'll release a new version with the updated msg soon.