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This is a bash function definition that takes you to the top level directory of a git project.

function cdtop() {
    local git_root;

    git_root=`git rev-parse --show-toplevel`;

    if [ $? -eq 0 ]
    then
        cd ${git_root}
    else
        return 1
    fi
}

Here's a git alias that does serves a similar purpose. What this does is define a new alias, exec, that executes a shell command in the current project's root.

git config --global alias.exec '!exec '

With this alias defined, you can say the following and it will take you to the project root.

cd `git exec pwd`

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/957928/is-there-a-way-to-get-the-git-root-directory-in-one-command