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fastest way to check if dir is a workdir

Subject: fastest way to check if dir is a workdir

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Thomas Koch· Aug 12, 2008, 11:34 UTC · lore

Hi,

I'm writing a little php-git-wrapper and would like to have a function which tells me, whether a given path is part of a git checkout or not.

What would be the fastest commandline to check, whether the current dir is part of a checkout? It may be assumed that the repository is at the standard position.

Thanks a lot,

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Jeff King· Aug 12, 2008, 13:01 UTC · re: Thomas Koch · lore

Re: fastest way to check if dir is a workdir

On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 01:34:56PM +0200, Thomas Koch wrote:

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> I'm writing a little php-git-wrapper and would like to have a function
> which tells me, whether a given path is part of a git checkout or not.
> 
> What would be the fastest commandline to check, whether the current dir
> is part of a checkout? It may be assumed that the repository is at the
> standard position.

How about "git rev-parse --is-inside-work-tree"?

-Peff