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

Adding to @Walk's comments, git status will throw fatal message if its not a repo. echo $? will help to capture of its an ERROR or not. If its a git repo then echo $? will be 0 else 128 will be the value