Failed to get remote.origin.url

Question

When trying to use gh-pages to deploy a react app I get the following error

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$ gh-pages -d build
Failed to get remote.origin.url (task must either be run in a git repository with a configured origin remote or must be configured with the "repo" option).
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The remote is set as origin

$ git remote -v
origin  https://github.com/{user_name}/{repo_name} (fetch)
origin  https://github.com/{user_name}/{repo_name} (push)

Answer 1

The solution for me was that I had a remote origin set, however it would throw me this error when my project folder was located on an external hard drive. Made a new react project on my local hard drive and now it works despite everything else being the same.