rev-parse: --show-cdup

When --show-prefix is useful, sometimes it is easier to cd up to
the toplevel of the tree.  This is equivalent to:

    git rev-parse --show-prefix | sed -e 's|[^/][^/]*|..|g'

but we do not have to invoke sed for that.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>

1 files changed, 12 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/rev-parse.c b/rev-parse.c
index bb4949ad7..0c951af0d 100644
--- a/rev-parse.c
+++ b/rev-parse.c
@@ -216,6 +216,18 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv)
 					puts(prefix);
 				continue;
 			}
+			if (!strcmp(arg, "--show-cdup")) {
+				const char *pfx = prefix;
+				while (pfx) {
+					pfx = strchr(pfx, '/');
+					if (pfx) {
+						pfx++;
+						printf("../");
+					}
+				}
+				putchar('\n');
+				continue;
+			}
 			if (!strcmp(arg, "--git-dir")) {
 				const char *gitdir = getenv(GIT_DIR_ENVIRONMENT);
 				static char cwd[PATH_MAX];