fix(is-git-repo): recognize bare repositories

is_git_repo() used `git rev-parse --show-toplevel` to detect whether
the current directory is inside a git repository. --show-toplevel
fails for bare repositories since they have no working tree, so every
command that relies on this shared helper (e.g. `git browse`) reports
"Not a git repo!" when run from inside a bare repo, even though it
plainly is one.

Switch to `git rev-parse --git-dir`, which succeeds for both normal
and bare repositories and keeps the existing "not a repo" behavior
for non-repo directories.

Fixes #1238, reported and LGTM'd by maintainers there with this exact
fix; no PR had been opened for it yet.

Adds tests/is-git-repo.bats covering: a normal repo, a bare repo, and
a plain (non-repo) directory.
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Vijay Misal 2026-08-10 21:04:22 +05:30 committed by vjymisal0
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# #
is_git_repo() { is_git_repo() {
git rev-parse --show-toplevel > /dev/null 2>&1 # --git-dir succeeds for both normal and bare repositories, whereas
# --show-toplevel fails inside a bare repository (it has no working tree).
git rev-parse --git-dir > /dev/null 2>&1
result=$? result=$?
if test $result != 0; then if test $result != 0; then
>&2 echo 'Not a git repo!' >&2 echo 'Not a git repo!'

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# shellcheck shell=bash
source "$BATS_TEST_DIRNAME/test_util.sh"
setup_file() {
test_util.setup_file
}
setup() {
test_util.cd_test
}
@test "is_git_repo succeeds inside a normal (non-bare) repository" {
test_util.git_init
run bash "$BATS_TEST_DIRNAME/../helper/is-git-repo"
assert_success
}
@test "is_git_repo succeeds inside a bare repository (see #1238)" {
git init --bare --initial-branch main repo.git
cd repo.git
run bash "$BATS_TEST_DIRNAME/../helper/is-git-repo"
assert_success
}
@test "is_git_repo fails outside of a repository" {
run bash "$BATS_TEST_DIRNAME/../helper/is-git-repo"
assert_failure
assert_output 'Not a git repo!'
}