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| author | Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> | 2010-11-26 22:32:31 +0700 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2010-11-29 13:26:00 -0800 |
| commit | 80d868b068b9e68a4aac91be578a8f097f45d8da (patch) | |
| tree | feb72f87fc07b5e62edefd48efb405654a2980ef /Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt | |
| parent | e0d769d1fda4f66a1c0b99f3f52a25d4f4006162 (diff) | |
| download | git-80d868b068b9e68a4aac91be578a8f097f45d8da.tar.gz | |
git-rev-parse.txt: clarify --git-dir
The current behavior is often to print an absolute path rather than
a ../../etc string, but callers must be ready to accept a relative
path, too. The most common output is ".git" (from the toplevel of
an ordinary work tree).
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt | 7 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt b/Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt index 4a27643c1e..ff23cb0219 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt @@ -136,7 +136,12 @@ appending `/{asterisk}`. directory (typically a sequence of "../", or an empty string). --git-dir:: - Show `$GIT_DIR` if defined else show the path to the .git directory. + Show `$GIT_DIR` if defined. Otherwise show the path to + the .git directory, relative to the current directory. ++ +If `$GIT_DIR` is not defined and the current directory +is not detected to lie in a git repository or work tree +print a message to stderr and exit with nonzero status. --is-inside-git-dir:: When the current working directory is below the repository |