From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2006 12:01:04 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH] Implement poor-man's submodule support in pre-commit hook
Message-ID: <emb8h2$io4$1@sea.gmane.org>
In-Reply-To: <A76C0FA3-1649-409B-B0D4-C22865622C1F@silverinsanity.com>

Brian Gernhardt wrote:

> 
> 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.

Because it is "git --git-dir=<PATH>" to set it (probably).
Although it is not insurmountable difficulity...
-- 
Jakub Narebski
Warsaw, Poland
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