Is there a way to get the git root directory in one command?

Question

Mercurial has a way of printing the root directory (that contains .hg) via

hg root

Is there something equivalent in git to get the director

Answer 1

git-extras

adds $ git root
see https://github.com/tj/git-extras/blob/master/Commands.md#git-root

$ pwd
.../very-deep-from-root-directory
$ cd `git root`
$ git add . && git commit

Availability of git-extras

• homebrew(osx)/linuxbrew(linux) $ brew install git-extras
• debian/ubuntu repos (https://packages.debian.org/sid/git-extras) $ apt-get install git-extras