Qt Creator 7.0.2 Qt not finding .git should not be a compile fatal error: fatal: not a git repository: '/home/nolimit/nolimitapp/nolimitlib/.git'

Compiles fine with Qt Creator 4.8.2 but when compiling my project with Qt Creator 7.0.2 I get many errors like :-1: error: fatal: not a git repository: '/home/nolimit/nolimitapp/nolimitgui/.git'

at most this should be a warning and not a fatal error.

Compiling with qt 6.3.2

Tried both Ubuntu 20.04 and windows compiling Android

My project has a tree like structure. the contents of my root .pro file is

TEMPLATE = subdirs
CONFIG += no_docs_target

1. order is important so dependent libraries are available
2. build the project sequentially as listed in SUBDIRS !
   CONFIG += ordered

SUBDIRS += $$PWD/nolimitlib/BuildNlc1_NlcDependLibs.pro
SUBDIRS += $$PWD/nolimitlib/BuildNlc2_NlcCore.pro
SUBDIRS += $$PWD/nolimitgui/NoLimitConnectApp.pro

The .git folder is located in /home/nolimit/nolimitapp

git works fine from the command line.