Martin Roa (Jun 01 2022 at 15:08): Martin Roa (Jun 01 2022 at 15:08):Actually, this didn't work because I would need to previously call LibGit2.GitRepo(path::AbstractString) which expects the path to the repo's root dir.
Sebastian Pfitzner (Jun 01 2022 at 15:10):your approach seems fine. I'd check isdir(joinpath(currdir, ".git")) instead to avoid the readdir call and also abort the loop when dirname(currdir)==currdir (in theory that's enough and you shouldn't need the additional checks against homedir and /, especially since the latter will only work on unixes)
Martin Roa (Jun 01 2022 at 15:11):Awesome. Thanks.
Sebastian Pfitzner (Jun 01 2022 at 15:13):may also need a try-catch around isdir, since that can throw
Notification Bot (Jun 01 2022 at 15:39):Martin Roa has marked this topic as resolved.
Gunnar Farnebäck (Jun 01 2022 at 17:35):git rev-parse --show-prefix tells you where you are relative to the repository root.
Martin Roa (Jun 01 2022 at 17:41):Didn't know about that one. Thanks.
Sundar R (Jun 02 2022 at 07:45):There's also git rev-parse --show-toplevel which returns the root dir of the repo as an absolute path. This would also work in the (unusual) case that someone doesn't have a .git directory and has GIT_DIR and GIT_WORK_TREE defined instead (or the equivalent cli options enabled).
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