Determine if directory is under git control

Question

How can I tell if a given directory is part of a git respository?

(The following is in python, but bash or something would be fine.)

os.path.isdir(\'.svn         


        

Answer 1

From git help rev-parse again, I think you can do something like :

git rev-parse --resolve-git-dir  

and check if the command returns the directory path itself. According to the manual git rev-parse returns the path to the directory if the argument contains a git repo or is a file which contains the path to a git repo.