Re: how to access working tree from .git dir?

[Josh England <jjengla@comcast.net>]

On Fri, 2007-09-07 at 13:43 -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> "Josh England" <jjengla@sandia.gov> writes:
> 
> > In messsing around with hooks, I've discovered that not all hooks are
> > run in the same environment.  In particular, the current working
> > directory in the post-receive hook (maybe others as well) is the GIT_DIR
> > (.git) directory, instead of the root of the working tree (as in
> > pre-commit).
> 
> It is not even "instead of"; that's the only sane thing to do
> for post-receive, which is in response to git-push and usually
> used for a bare repository, i.e. without any work tree.

I thought there was probably a sane reason for it.  That is perfectly
acceptable, but the problem still exists that there doesn't seem to be a
good way to access the top of the working tree from within the GIT_DIR.
Since I now know that post-receive has a CWD in .git, I could just use
`pwd`/../ , but I was hoping for a better (read: consistent between
hooks) solution.

-JE