From: Brian Gernhardt <benji@silverinsanity.com>
Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2006 11:49:04 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH] Implement poor-man's submodule support in pre-commit hook
Message-ID: <A76C0FA3-1649-409B-B0D4-C22865622C1F@silverinsanity.com>
In-Reply-To: <200612201008.49045.andyparkins@gmail.com>


On Dec 20, 2006, at 5:08 AM, Andy Parkins wrote:

> Hello,
>
> 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.

The way to do that seems to be "git rev-parse --git-dir".  I'm not  
sure why it's not just "git --git-dir" or similar (probably just  
historical reasons), but there you go.