Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH] Implement poor-man's submodule support in pre-commit hook

From: Jakub Narebski <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2006 12:59:58 +0100

Andy Parkins wrote:

> Help...
> 
>> +if [ -f .gitmodules ]; then
> 
> This doesn't work because git-commit is not necessarily in the root of the 
> working tree.  How do I safely get that root?  While ${GIT_DIR}/.. would work 
> it is not guaranteed.

Do you want "git rev-parse --show-prefix" or "git rev-parse --show-cdup",
or "git rev-parse --git-dir" perhaps? (Although here rev in rev-parse is
misnomer).
-- 
Jakub Narebski
Warsaw, Poland
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