From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2011 20:30:10 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] Move git-dir for submodules
Message-ID: <7v62muys6l.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20110722190223.GA27076@kolya>

Fredrik Gustafsson <iveqy@iveqy.com> writes:

>> I wonder if we want a new option to "git rev-parse" so that we can say
>> 
>> 	git rev-parse --is-well-formed-git-dir init/.git
>> 
>> to perform these checks without exposing the implimentation detail.
>
> How about using
> (cd <repo>; git rev-parse --verify HEAD" >/dev/null)
> instead?

Can the <repo> be without any commit, i.e. just after created?