git-rev-parse.txt: clarify --git-dir

The current behavior is often to print an absolute path rather than
a ../../etc string, but callers must be ready to accept a relative
path, too. The most common output is ".git" (from the toplevel of
an ordinary work tree).

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <[email protected]>

Author: jrn

Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt

@@ -136,7 +136,12 @@ appending `/{asterisk}`.
 	directory (typically a sequence of "../", or an empty string).
 
 --git-dir::
-	Show `$GIT_DIR` if defined else show the path to the .git directory.
+	Show `$GIT_DIR` if defined. Otherwise show the path to
+	the .git directory, relative to the current directory.
++
+If `$GIT_DIR` is not defined and the current directory
+is not detected to lie in a git repository or work tree
+print a message to stderr and exit with nonzero status.
 
 --is-inside-git-dir::
 	When the current working directory is below the repository