From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@xxxxxxxxx> The current behavior is often to print an absolute path rather than a ../../etc string, but callers must be ready to accept a relative path, too. The most common output is ".git" (from the toplevel of an ordinary work tree). Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Nguyán ThÃi Ngác Duy <pclouds@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> --- Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt | 7 ++++++- 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt b/Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt index 4a27643..ff23cb0 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt @@ -136,7 +136,12 @@ appending `/{asterisk}`. directory (typically a sequence of "../", or an empty string). --git-dir:: - Show `$GIT_DIR` if defined else show the path to the .git directory. + Show `$GIT_DIR` if defined. Otherwise show the path to + the .git directory, relative to the current directory. ++ +If `$GIT_DIR` is not defined and the current directory +is not detected to lie in a git repository or work tree +print a message to stderr and exit with nonzero status. --is-inside-git-dir:: When the current working directory is below the repository -- 1.7.3.2.316.gda8b3 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html