[GSoC Patch v6 7/7] repo: add path.cdup

From: K Jayatheerth <jayatheerthkulkarni2005@gmail.com>
Date: Sep 11, 2026, 14:45 UTC
Message-ID: <20260911144519.1011780-8-jayatheerthkulkarni2005@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20260911144519.1011780-1-jayatheerthkulkarni2005@gmail.com>

Scripts sometimes need the relative path from the current working directory to the repository's working tree root (cdup). While this information can be retrieved through `git rev-parse --show-cdup`, `git repo info` does not currently expose it as a scriptable key.

Introduce the `path.cdup` key to `git repo info`. The key returns the path from the current working directory to the root of the working tree, returning the empty string when invoked from the working tree root.

Mentored-by: Justin Tobler <jltobler@gmail.com>
Mentored-by: Lucas Seiki Oshiro <lucasseikioshiro@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: K Jayatheerth <jayatheerthkulkarni2005@gmail.com>
---
 Documentation/git-repo.adoc |  5 +++++
 builtin/repo.c              | 15 +++++++++++++++
 t/t1900-repo-info.sh        | 23 +++++++++++++++++++++++
 3 files changed, 43 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Documentation/git-repo.adoc b/Documentation/git-repo.adoc
index fb5aceae8f..0a30c0d6ab 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-repo.adoc
+++ b/Documentation/git-repo.adoc
@@ -104,6 +104,11 @@ values that they return:
 `object.format`::
 	The object format (hash algorithm) used in the repository.
 
+`path.cdup`::
+	The path to the root of the working tree relative to the current
+	working directory. Returns the empty string when the current
+	working directory is the root of the working tree.
+
 `path.commondir.absolute`::
 	The canonical absolute path to the Git repository's common
 	directory (the shared `.git` directory containing objects,
diff --git a/builtin/repo.c b/builtin/repo.c
index b5e1567809..bb129c9fee 100644
--- a/builtin/repo.c
+++ b/builtin/repo.c
@@ -78,6 +78,20 @@ static int get_object_format(struct repository *repo, struct strbuf *buf)
 	return 0;
 }
 
+static int get_path_cdup(struct repository *repo, struct strbuf *buf)
+{
+	const char *pfx = repo->prefix;
+
+	while (pfx) {
+		pfx = strchr(pfx, '/');
+		if (pfx) {
+			pfx++;
+			strbuf_addstr(buf, "../");
+		}
+	}
+	return 0;
+}
+
 static int get_path_commondir_absolute(struct repository *repo, struct strbuf *buf)
 {
 	const char *common_dir = repo_get_common_dir(repo);
@@ -258,6 +272,7 @@ static const struct repo_info_field repo_info_field[] = {
 	{ "layout.bare", get_layout_bare },
 	{ "layout.shallow", get_layout_shallow },
 	{ "object.format", get_object_format },
+	{ "path.cdup", get_path_cdup },
 	{ "path.commondir.absolute", get_path_commondir_absolute },
 	{ "path.commondir.relative", get_path_commondir_relative },
 	{ "path.git-prefix", get_path_git_prefix },
diff --git a/t/t1900-repo-info.sh b/t/t1900-repo-info.sh
index 10bbec8139..5790d70316 100755
--- a/t/t1900-repo-info.sh
+++ b/t/t1900-repo-info.sh
@@ -215,6 +215,29 @@ test_repo_info_path 'commondir with only GIT_DIR' 'commondir' \
 	'.git' \
 	'GIT_DIR="../.git" && export GIT_DIR'
 
+test_expect_success 'path.cdup at repository root' '
+	test_when_finished "rm -rf repo" &&
+	git init repo &&
+	(
+		cd repo &&
+		echo "path.cdup=" >expect &&
+		git repo info path.cdup >actual &&
+		test_cmp expect actual
+	)
+'
+
+test_expect_success 'path.cdup in subdirectory' '
+	test_when_finished "rm -rf repo" &&
+	git init repo &&
+	mkdir -p repo/sub/dir &&
+	(
+		cd repo/sub/dir &&
+		echo "path.cdup=../../" >expect &&
+		git repo info path.cdup >actual &&
+		test_cmp expect actual
+	)
+'
+
 test_expect_success 'path.git-prefix at repository root' '
 	test_when_finished "rm -rf repo" &&
 	git init repo &&

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