From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
Date: Sat, 04 Dec 2010 16:52:41 GMT
Subject: Re: Q about git rev-parse {--is-inside-work-tree, --show-cdup}
Message-ID: <m24oatcwfa.fsf@igel.home>
In-Reply-To: <4CF95BDC.60506@dirk.my1.cc>

Dirk Süsserott <newsletter@dirk.my1.cc> writes:

> 2. Wouldn't it be useful, if "git rev-parse --show-cdup" (2a) would
> return a dot "." instead of nothing if we are already in the topdir?
> That would make the steps (2a), (2b), (2c) to a simple "cd $(git
> rev-parse --show-cdup)".

The string returned by --show-cdup is to be used as prefix for a
relative path.  If you want to use it standalone just append ".":

cd $(git rev-parse --show-cdup).

Andreas.

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