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How can I tell if a given directory is part of a git respository?
(The following is in python, but bash or something would be fine.)
os.path.isdir('.svn') will tell you if the current directory is controlled by Subversion. Mercurial and Git just have a .hg/.git at the top of the repository, so for hg I can use
os.system('hg -q stat 2> /dev/null > /dev/null') == 0) but git status returns a nonzero (error) exit status if nothing's changed.
Is iterating up the path looking for .git myself the best I can do?
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So how can you tell if a directory is within a git repository? Exit code of 0 means it's a git repository. Any other code (e.g., 128 ) means it's not.
No, there isn't. But you can store in git a text files with the 2 or 3 commands you use to reconfigure each repository. You can make it a .
Just found this in git help rev-parse
git rev-parse --is-inside-work-tree prints true if it is in the work tree, false if it's in the '.git' tree, and fatal error if it's neither. Both 'true' and 'false' are printed on stdout with an exit status of 0, the fatal error is printed on stderr with an exit status of 128.
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