From 8a2d9758e0ca075d3b626672f9f5fc56a7b19476 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Stefan Haller <stefan@haller-berlin.de>
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2026 18:21:54 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Move gitDirOfRepo to git_commands

The file loader is going to need it too.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
---
 pkg/commands/git_commands/repo_paths.go     | 31 +++++++++++++++++++
 pkg/gui/controllers/helpers/repos_helper.go | 33 +--------------------
 2 files changed, 32 insertions(+), 32 deletions(-)

diff --git a/pkg/commands/git_commands/repo_paths.go b/pkg/commands/git_commands/repo_paths.go
index 9850b5a4f..967268f88 100644
--- a/pkg/commands/git_commands/repo_paths.go
+++ b/pkg/commands/git_commands/repo_paths.go
@@ -313,3 +313,34 @@ func runGitRevParse(gitCmd *oscommands.CmdObj) (string, error) {
 	}
 	return strings.TrimSpace(res), nil
 }
+
+// GitDirOfRepo returns the directory that holds the git data of the repo at
+// repoPath, and whether it could be found. An ordinary repo keeps that data in
+// a .git directory; a worktree and a submodule have a .git file naming the
+// directory instead.
+func GitDirOfRepo(repoPath string) (string, bool) {
+	gitDirPath := filepath.Join(repoPath, ".git")
+
+	stat, err := os.Stat(gitDirPath)
+	if err != nil {
+		return "", false
+	}
+	if stat.IsDir() {
+		return gitDirPath, true
+	}
+
+	content, err := os.ReadFile(gitDirPath)
+	if err != nil {
+		return "", false
+	}
+	gitDir, ok := strings.CutPrefix(strings.TrimSpace(string(content)), "gitdir: ")
+	if !ok {
+		return "", false
+	}
+	// A relative name is relative to the repo. Git writes one for a submodule,
+	// and for a worktree created with --relative-paths.
+	if !filepath.IsAbs(gitDir) {
+		gitDir = filepath.Join(repoPath, gitDir)
+	}
+	return gitDir, true
+}
diff --git a/pkg/gui/controllers/helpers/repos_helper.go b/pkg/gui/controllers/helpers/repos_helper.go
index 00cfbbd0a..b31185659 100644
--- a/pkg/gui/controllers/helpers/repos_helper.go
+++ b/pkg/gui/controllers/helpers/repos_helper.go
@@ -70,37 +70,6 @@ type headInfo struct {
 	hash string
 }
 
-// gitDirOfRepo returns the directory that holds the git data of the repo at
-// repoPath, and whether it could be found. An ordinary repo keeps that data in
-// a .git directory; a worktree and a submodule have a .git file naming the
-// directory instead.
-func gitDirOfRepo(repoPath string) (string, bool) {
-	gitDirPath := filepath.Join(repoPath, ".git")
-
-	stat, err := os.Stat(gitDirPath)
-	if err != nil {
-		return "", false
-	}
-	if stat.IsDir() {
-		return gitDirPath, true
-	}
-
-	content, err := os.ReadFile(gitDirPath)
-	if err != nil {
-		return "", false
-	}
-	gitDir, ok := strings.CutPrefix(strings.TrimSpace(string(content)), "gitdir: ")
-	if !ok {
-		return "", false
-	}
-	// A relative name is relative to the repo. Git writes one for a submodule,
-	// and for a worktree created with --relative-paths.
-	if !filepath.IsAbs(gitDir) {
-		gitDir = filepath.Join(repoPath, gitDir)
-	}
-	return gitDir, true
-}
-
 // The branch git names in the HEAD file of a repo that keeps its refs in a
 // reftable. The refs live in a binary table there, and the name in HEAD
 // resolves nowhere, so that a reader of the file gets an error instead of a
@@ -110,7 +79,7 @@ const reftablePlaceholderBranch = ".invalid"
 // readHeadInfo reads the HEAD file of the repo at repoPath to find out what it
 // has checked out, and reports whether that worked.
 func readHeadInfo(repoPath string) (headInfo, bool) {
-	gitDir, ok := gitDirOfRepo(repoPath)
+	gitDir, ok := git_commands.GitDirOfRepo(repoPath)
 	if !ok {
 		return headInfo{}, false
 	}