On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 8:55 AM, Bruce Korb <bk...@gnu.org> wrote: >> of determining whether you are >> running from within a git repository, and there is no such command >> as 'git root'. > > Sorry. BitKeeper had it and the method for accomplishing it was > too complicated, so I added an alias and forgot I'd done so: > [alias] > root = !pwd -P > > There is an approved way, but it is really obtuse: > $(\cd ./$(git rev-parse --show-cdup) && pwd -P) > Far from the first thing that comes to mind.
hmm, even this doesn't seem to work when the GIT_DIR environment variable is set
