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 ShadeHawk on #git - 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