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Husky fails when .git is above the project root

Husky setup breaks when the git repository root sits above the project folder, forcing manual cd commands in scripts.

Tier II · Emerging Problems that are still building up.

4 public reports · first reported 7 November 2022 · last reported 14 February 2025

Idea report · $9 · No contacts · All sales final

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What's going wrong

Developers whose project lives in a subfolder of a larger git repository, or whose git dependency runs Husky during install, find the prepare step failing or hooks landing in the wrong place.

AI-assisted: written with the help of AI from the reports. The idea report has the full summary.

In the idea report

  • The full summary.
  • The products the 4 reports are about, and how many came each month.
  • Related problems.

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