Re: [git-gui] bug report: "Open existing repository" dialog fails on submodules

["Rémi Rampin" <remirampin@gmail.com>]

2015-02-02 3:41 UTC-05:00, Chris Packham <judge.packham@gmail.com>:
> [...]
> But it actually looks like git rev-parse --resolve-git-dir $path needs
> to be run inside a git repository _any_ git repository, which seems a
> bit backwards to me.
> [...]

Indeed, looking at git-rev-parse(1), the correct option might be
--show-toplevel, which will print the cwd if it is the top-level of a
non-bare repository:

    cd $candidate && test $(git rev-parse --show-toplevel) = $candidate

or

    test $(git --git-dir=$candidate rev-parse --show-toplevel) = $candidate

Of course Git will resolve symlinks at this point, so $candidate has
to be resolved first for the equality to make sense.

Other solution is to parse the "gitdir: ..." format and recurse, which
is not exactly hard (provided you speak Tcl).