Hi Carin,

We have put that as a safety check for our developers installations, to avoid to install a package overwriting a git repository. Be reassured and keep calm, we didn't invent that check in our office. Many other extensions do similar (e.g. Kunena).

But I can see use-cases where a site is git-versioned and it makes full sense to install over a git checkout.

Fortunately, the error message is quite clear, and easy to grep, and would affect only knowledgeable developers.

I will improve that check to avoid checking for Joomla being git-versioned, but only CB itself when versioned through an aliased folder. Will do that hopefully for for next RC.

Thanks for the feedback, which allowed idea to improve this safety-check.

I've added a feature-tracker for it here: forge.joomlapolis.com/issues/4599

Best Regards,

Thanks again for the feedback which lead to our improvement suggestion. Issue solved as described for next RC and Stable.

Marked as solved.

Revisited the fix and it should now be solved for good (for all Joomla git checkouts) in latest CB 2.0.4 nightly build (available to all paid members) and the next 2.0.5 release:

www.joomlapolis.com/downloads/downloads-single-items/cat_view/56-advanced-member-download-area

Please confirm if it works for you.