Check if directory is git repository (without having to cd into it)

Question

What\'s a shell command I can use to, using the full directory path, determine whether or not a given directory is a git repository? Specifically, I\'d like to be able to do thi

Answer 1

We can also try git status command and if the output is like :

fatal: Not a git repository (or any of the parent directories): .git

Then, the directory is not a git repository.