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git-rev-parse:tldr:871f2
The command git rev-parse --show-toplevel
is used to display the absolute path of the top-level directory in a Git repository.
In a Git repository, the top-level directory is the root directory of the repository. It is the parent directory of all the files and subdirectories in the repository.
By running git rev-parse --show-toplevel
, Git will output the absolute path of the top-level directory. This can be useful when you need to reference the root directory in other commands or scripts, as it provides a reliable way to determine the location of the repository.
For example, if you are in a Git repository located at /home/user/project/
, running git rev-parse --show-toplevel
will output the path /home/user/project/
.
Note that if you run this command outside of a Git repository, it will return an error message since there is no top-level directory to be found.