Cannot identify HEAD for git repository.

I have django 1.8 python 3.5 raven 5.26.0 And I have followed django integration after executing:

python3 projectname/manage.py raven test

I have got raven.exceptions.InvalidGitRepository: Cannot identify HEAD for git repository at /home/faja/Pulpit/Projekty/mainProjectFolder/djangoFolder/mainAppWithSettings

My project structure

zdobadzszczyt/
└── zdobadzszczyt
    ├── config
    ├── landingpage
    │   └── migrations
    ├── socialauth
    │   └── migrations
    ├── static
    ├── staticfiles
    │   └── admin
    │       ├── css
    │       ├── img
    │       │   └── gis
    │       └── js
    │           └── admin
    ├── templates
    └── workout
        ├── management
        │   ├── commands
        └── migrations

[laurentS]

I think it’s a documentation issue. I followed the quick installation instructions on my sentry instance, which suggests this line

'release': raven.fetch_git_sha(os.path.dirname(__file__)),

in your settings.py. But if your settings.py is like mine one folder down from your git root folder, then you get the error you describe (because of this: https://github.com/getsentry/raven-python/blob/master/raven/versioning.py#L22). Instead follow https://docs.sentry.io/clients/python/integrations/django/ and replace the line with:

'release': raven.fetch_git_sha(os.path.dirname(os.pardir)),

and you’re in business!

[Designer023]

I have tried all of the above and it didn’t work for a Django Project I have been working on. We’re using Heroku also if that is relavant. What eventually worked for me is:

'release': raven.fetch_git_sha(os.path.abspath(BASE_DIR)),

Where BASE_DIR is set in the settings file which resides in the project folder one level up from the root of the project. The project settings file is specified using an environmental variable:

BASE_DIR = os.path.dirname(os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__)))

Hope this helps anyone else with a similar problem