Check if directory is a git repo or not

check-git-2.sh

# from https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2180270/check-if-current-directory-is-a-git-repository
[ -d .git ] || git rev-parse --git-dir > /dev/null 2>&1

check-git.sh

# Copyright (C) 2006,2007 Shawn O. Pearce <[email protected]>
# Conceptually based on gitcompletion (http://gitweb.hawaga.org.uk/).
# Distributed under the GNU General Public License, version 2.0.

if [ -d .git ]; then
  echo .git;
else
  git rev-parse --git-dir 2> /dev/null;
fi;

Why are you calling git rev-parse --git-dir 2> /dev/null; ?

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2180270/check-if-current-directory-is-a-git-repository
edit: wrong link

@avatar-lavventura

Why are you calling git rev-parse --git-dir 2> /dev/null; ?

Regarding questions above,

This checks for .git in current directory only.

[ -d .git ]

If you are in a subfolder it won't work. But rev-parse will work.

cd my-repo
cd docs
git rev-parse --git-dir
# Success! Output:
# /Users/mcurrin/repos/my-repo/.git

# Test the failure case.
cd ~
git rev-parse --git-dir
# Output
fatal: not a git repository (or any of the parent directories): .git

The 2> /dev/null bit hides the stderr on an error.

I don't think you even need the --git-dir flag since git rev-parse alone will return success but not text if in a git repo, or error and error message if not.

@MichaelCurrin Thanks for the explanation