"Crabtree, Andrew" <andrew.crabtree@xxxxxxx> writes: > I ran into an issue where 'git rev-parse --show-toplevel' is reporting the current directory instead of the root of the repository. > In my case I'm running it from within the pre-commit hook, and it seems like it might be related to GIT_DIR being set. Running "git" with GIT_DIR exported (or "git --git-dir=<dir>") tells Git that it should not perform the usual "does this directory has a subdirectory .git that is a repository? If not, go one level up and repeat the check" repository discovery. Because the repository discovery serves the purpose of finding both the repository and the top of the working tree, disabling the discovery means you either need to tell Git where the top of the working tree is, or you are already at the top of the working tree by chdir()'ing to it. Because you do not know where the top level is (otherwise you would not be asking "rev-parse --show-toplevel" about it), either is an option for you, but you can "unset GIT_DIR" to stop telling Git that it should not perform the repository discovery.
