From: Intransition <transfire@...>
Date: 2010-06-24T21:32:38+09:00
Subject: Re: Finding a project's root directory



On Jun 23, 6:43 pm, Jeremy Hinegardner <jer...@hinegardner.org> wrote:
> 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.

Thanks Jeremy. I'm using lib/ as the fallback in place of README*.

I also added a .root/ check to .git and .hg, so if all else fails
people can add that to their project.