How to view magit's current repository?

Question

According to the Magit manual the combination C-x g (magit-status) shows

the status of the current Git repository in a buffer.

How can I view what the current Git repository is, i.e. the full path to it or alternatively the path relative to my home directory?

Answer 1

Proposal 1

For any Emacs buffer, you can invoke M-x pwd in order to display the current working directory, as determined by variable default-directory.

Proposal 2

The user option magit-buffer-name-format determines the name of Magit buffers and always contains the format specifier %t, which corresponds to the top-level directory of the repository's working tree.

The user option magit-uniquify-buffer-names defaults to t, which results in %t expanding to an abbreviated and uniquified representation of the current top-level directory.

If you don't mind the increased hogging of mode line real estate, you can set magit-uniquify-buffer-names to nil (e.g. via (setq-default magit-uniquify-buffer-names nil)) in order to have the full directory path displayed in the mode line (and as part of the name) of each Magit buffer.

Proposal 3

Following Kyle Meyer's suggestion, you could write your own command along the lines of

(defun my-git-pwd (&optional insert)
  "Show the toplevel of the current repository.
With prefix argument INSERT, insert the current default directory
at point instead."
  (interactive "P")
  (magit-with-toplevel
    (pwd insert)))

Proposal 4

If you don't want to waste any horizontal space in the mode-line as suggested in (2), you can instead "waste" a single line in the status buffer itself:

(magit-add-section-hook 'magit-status-headers-hook
                        'magit-insert-repo-header)

You can control where this additional information appears, see magit-add-section-hook's doc-string.