Can git tell me what the current managed base path is

Question

Hi all,

Assuming I am somewhere in a repository managed by git, which is based at some path. I.e.:

/home/whatever/username/MyRepository/a/b/c

where everything under

/home/whatever/username/MyRepository

is under git control.

Is there a git command I can run from some arbitrary location under the managed path which returns the base path (in this case

/home/whatever/username/MyRepository

)? I could reverse search through the directory structure, and wait to find the .git directory, but that seems exceptionally hackish.

Thanks!

Answer 1

This:

git rev-parse --show-toplevel