Re: how to access working tree from .git dir?

From: Josh England <jjengla@comcast.net>
Date: Sep 7, 2007, 21:27 UTC
Message-ID: <1189200421.12525.8.camel@beauty>
In-Reply-To: <7v642m436q.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Fri, 2007-09-07 at 13:43 -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:

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> "Josh England" <jjengla@sandia.gov> writes:
> 
> > In messsing around with hooks, I've discovered that not all hooks are
> > run in the same environment.  In particular, the current working
> > directory in the post-receive hook (maybe others as well) is the GIT_DIR
> > (.git) directory, instead of the root of the working tree (as in
> > pre-commit).
> 
> It is not even "instead of"; that's the only sane thing to do
> for post-receive, which is in response to git-push and usually
> used for a bare repository, i.e. without any work tree.

I thought there was probably a sane reason for it. That is perfectly acceptable, but the problem still exists that there doesn't seem to be a good way to access the top of the working tree from within the GIT_DIR. Since I now know that post-receive has a CWD in .git, I could just use `pwd`/../ , but I was hoping for a better (read: consistent between hooks) solution.

-JE