phpstorm “invalid git roots”

Question

I have checked out code from github. I have then gone to Version Control > Enable version control integration. I have selected git. I then get the error "invalid git root". Why could I be getting this error?

I am using msysgit 1.7.1 and phpstorm 2.1.

Answer 1

Are submodules involved? This is usually why this error shows up. From the command line you can check if that's the issue:

git submodule update --init --recursive

Hope this helps.