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

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Sep 7, 2007, 21:44 UTC
Message-ID: <7vhcm62lru.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <1189200421.12525.8.camel@beauty>

Josh England <jjengla@comcast.net> writes:

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> ... 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.

I do not think it is a bad thing for _your_ script to have the knowledge that in _your_ repositories everywhere, the top of the work tree is $GIT_DIR/.. and there is no repository that lacks a work tree. Obviously that would not work for people with bare repositories, but they would not be using _your_ script in their bare repositories, so that is Ok.

You can also configure core.worktree in $GIT_DIR/config and use that from the hook script, I presume, although I haven't done it (and do not see a need to do so) myself yet.