From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff King Subject: Re: git rev-parse --show-toplevel doesn't work inside git-dir Date: Wed, 5 Jun 2013 12:17:54 -0400 Message-ID: <20130605161754.GD8664@sigill.intra.peff.net> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: Orgad Shaneh X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Jun 05 18:18:02 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1UkGPR-000570-SK for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Wed, 05 Jun 2013 18:18:02 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755944Ab3FEQR5 (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Jun 2013 12:17:57 -0400 Received: from cloud.peff.net ([50.56.180.127]:51813 "EHLO peff.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753895Ab3FEQR5 (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Jun 2013 12:17:57 -0400 Received: (qmail 30972 invoked by uid 102); 5 Jun 2013 16:18:43 -0000 Received: from c-71-62-74-146.hsd1.va.comcast.net (HELO sigill.intra.peff.net) (71.62.74.146) (smtp-auth username relayok, mechanism cram-md5) by peff.net (qpsmtpd/0.84) with ESMTPA; Wed, 05 Jun 2013 11:18:43 -0500 Received: by sigill.intra.peff.net (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Wed, 05 Jun 2013 12:17:54 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Wed, Jun 05, 2013 at 10:34:11AM +0300, Orgad Shaneh wrote: > Running "git rev-parse --show-toplevel" doesn't print anything when it > is run inside .git dir (on all levels) This is by design. "--show-toplevel" does not print anything when you do not have a working tree, and you do not have one if you are inside the .git directory. If you were to do: cd .git git --work-tree=.. rev-parse --show-toplevel (or use GIT_WORK_TREE, or set core.worktree, etc), you would get back the toplevel of the working tree. -Peff