"Unable to open database file" when trying to export a fossil repo to git

Question

I'm getting a fossil.exe: [<repo path>]: unable to open database file when I'm trying to export a fossil repo to git on Windows.

Here's the steps I made:

1. git init new-repo
2. cd new-repo
3. fossil.exe export --git "fossil_repo_path" | git fast-import

Answer 1

I didn't figure out what was causing the problem, but I found a workaround:

1. git init git-repo
2. cd fossil-repo
3. fossil export --git > git.txt
4. Move git.txt to git-repo
5. type/cat git.txt | git fast-import
6. git checkout trunk
7. Voilà