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

I wanted to expand upon Daniel Brockman's excellent comment.

Defining git config --global alias.exec '!exec ' allows you to do things like git exec make because, as man git-config states:

If the alias expansion is prefixed with an exclamation point, it will be treated as a shell command. [...] Note that shell commands will be executed from the top-level directory of a repository, which may not necessarily be the current directory.

It's also handy to know that $GIT_PREFIX will be the path to the current directory relative to the top-level directory of a repository. But, knowing it is only half the battle™. Shell variable expansion makes it rather hard to use. So I suggest using bash -c like so:

git exec bash -c 'ls -l $GIT_PREFIX'

other commands include:

git exec pwd
git exec make