How do I find out what Git thinks the top-level working directory is? [duplicate]

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Sometimes, I'm confused with git thinking that I'm inside a Git working dir, but it's not obvious to me what the top-level working directory (containing .git/) is. (Probably, that repo was created by a mistake.)

So, how do I find out the top-level Git repo directory if I'm somewhere inside the subdirectories? How do I ask git to print what it thinks the current top-level working directory is?

Answer 1

Try this:

git rev-parse --show-toplevel 

Answer 2

I've written a simple script (git-find-git-dirs in my "git-shortcuts" collection) to make such queries to Git handy:

#!/bin/bash  # find-git-dirs -- A simple script to "find" (i.e., "print") the GIT_DIR, as assumed by Git. (Useful if you are in a subdir, and you are not sure about the top-level repo dir.)  SUBDIRECTORY_OK=yes . "$(git --exec-path)/git-sh-setup"  echo "GIT_DIR=$GIT_DIR" 

and put it to ~/bin/; now I can do my simple query like this:

$ git find-git-dirs GIT_DIR=/home/imz/.git GIT_WORK_TREE= $  

The only thing I lack from the initial question is the printing of the top-level working dir, now it just prints the path to the internal git repo dir...