Re: rev-parse --show-cdup in .git

Michael J Gruber [off-list ref] writes:

I'm sure this was discussed somewhere, but I can't find it:

When called from within .git, git rev-parse --show-cdup returns nothing
rather than "..", not even an error code. Is this intended?

I do not think --show-cdup should be linked to --is-inside-work-tree in
any way, if that is what you are getting at by mentioning "error code".

This is all the more disturbing since the cwd of hooks seems to be
GIT_DIR. Is that something one can rely upon? In that case one can
simply use ".." for cdup.

I think you will see something that is different from and is more sensible
than ".." when you use GIT_WORK_TREE environment variable (or its
corresponding configuration variable).