The working tree normally contains the contents of the HEAD commit's tree, plus any local changes that were made but not yet committed.
A working tree is associated with exactly one
branch
.
Clean working tree
A working tree is
clean
, if it corresponds to the revision refrenced by the current head.
Conversely, the tree is
dirty
if it contains modifications not committed to the current branch.
Determine interesting directories
git rev-parse
has some command line options which allow to determine interesting directories when executed from within a working directory.
Initialize
a new
repository
for the demonstration:
git init --quiet repo
cd repo
Create directory, a subdirectory ind descend into it:
$null = mkdir dir
$null = mkdir dir/subdir
cd dir/subdir
Show the absolute path to the top level directory:
git rev-parse --show-toplevel
Show the relative path to the top level directory with a trailing slash (in this case:
../../
):
git rev-parse --show-cdup
Show the relative path from the top level directory to the current directory with a trailing slash (in this case
dir/subdir/
):
git rev-parse --show-prefix
Show the absolute location of the
git dir
:
git rev-parse --git-dir
See also
The
--work-tree
command line option
.
.git/worktrees
working directory
