From: Jeremy Hinegardner <jeremy@...>
Date: 2010-06-24T07:43:25+09:00
Subject: Re: Finding a project's root directory

On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 03:43:09AM +0900, Intransition wrote:
> As I continue to work  project development tools I repeatedly run into
> the case of needing a reliable way to identify the project's root
> directory, i.e. to ascend up the directories until it is found.
> 
> So far the best idea of come up with is to look for .git/, .hg/ or as
> a fallback, README*.
> 
> Have any ideas for more reliable means?

I use the parent directory of the lib/ directory as project root.

-jeremy

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 Jeremy Hinegardner                              jeremy@hinegardner.org