"knife cookbook site install" command is failed.

[morou]

I tried to install some cookbooks by using "knife cookbook site install" command in git repository that is initialized by "git init --separate-git-dir" command.
Then I got the following error.

ERROR: The cookbook repo /chef-repo/cookbooks is not a git repository.

Can I avoid this issue?

Reproduce steps.

1. knife solo init chef-repo
2. cd chef-repo
3. git init --separate-git-dir
4. git add .
5. git commit -a -m "initial"
6. knife cookbook site install yum

[smurawski]

I submitted a pull request to deal with a separate git directory.

[dasgoll]

I'm still getting this error. Was this fixed?

[lamont-granquist]

i'm not sure if this ever got fixed. knife cookbook site install is fairly deprecated, we don't recommend anyone use it, and if its still broken its likely that command will be retired before it gets fixed.

[nebffa]

Hey @lamont-granquist , I am quite shocked to read that as your docs really don't reflect it.

https://docs.chef.io/plugin_knife_supermarket.html says Only use knife supermarket if you are using a Chef 12.12 or earlier. If you are using Chef 12.13 or later, you should use the knife cookbook site commands. and the https://docs.chef.io/knife_cookbook_site.html docs make no mention that it's fairly deprecated. What should we use instead of knife cookbook site install?