TIL: How to Navigate to the Root Folder of a Git Repo
20 Aug 2025 #todayilearned #gitRecently I found myself cd
ing to find the folder with a .sln
file. You know to run dotnet
commands.
Being a lazy coder, I thought of a better solution with a Bash script. But it turned out to be way easier with a Git command,
$ cd `git rev-parse --show-toplevel`
That would take you to the root folder of a git repo. And since my solution file is at the root, bingo! Kudos to this SO answer.
And the next lazy step was to create an alias,
alias groot='cd "$(git rev-parse --show-toplevel)"'
Et voilĂ !