On Fri, Nov 01, 2013 at 06:19:51PM -0500, Ville Walveranta wrote: > "git-rev-parse --is-inside-git-dir" outputs "fatal: Not a git > repository (or any of the parent directories): .git", instead of > "false" when outside of a git directory. "--is-inside-work-tree" > behaves the same way. Both commands work correctly (i.e. output > "true") when inside a git directory, or inside a work tree, > respectively. I think that's intentional - and it looks like the behaviour has not changed since these options were added. With the current behaviour you get three possible outcomes from "git rev-parse --is-inside-work-tree": if worktree=$(git rev-parse --is-inside-work-tree 2>/dev/null) then if test "$worktree" = true then echo 'inside work tree' else echo 'in repository, but not in work tree' fi else echo 'not in repository' fi -- 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