Added search_parent_directories keyword argument to Repo type.

Now by default, we will not walk up the directory structure and possibly find
git directories that the user didn't intend to find.
If required, that kind of behaviour can be turned back on.

Fixes #65

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 6 deletions

diff --git a/git/repo/base.py b/git/repo/base.py
index dbca4697..97e49aa2 100644
--- a/git/repo/base.py
+++ b/git/repo/base.py
@@ -46,7 +46,6 @@ from .fun import (
     rev_parse,
     is_git_dir,
     find_git_dir,
-    read_gitfile,
     touch,
 )
 from git.compat import (
@@ -96,7 +95,7 @@ class Repo(object):
     # represents the configuration level of a configuration file
     config_level = ("system", "global", "repository")
 
-    def __init__(self, path=None, odbt=DefaultDBType):
+    def __init__(self, path=None, odbt=DefaultDBType, search_parent_directories=False):
         """Create a new Repo instance
 
         :param path: is the path to either the root git directory or the bare git repo::
@@ -128,15 +127,14 @@ class Repo(object):
                 self.git_dir = curpath
                 self._working_tree_dir = os.path.dirname(curpath)
                 break
+
             gitpath = find_git_dir(join(curpath, '.git'))
             if gitpath is not None:
                 self.git_dir = gitpath
                 self._working_tree_dir = curpath
                 break
-            gitpath = read_gitfile(curpath)
-            if gitpath:
-                self.git_dir = gitpath
-                self._working_tree_dir = curpath
+            
+            if not search_parent_directories:
                 break
             curpath, dummy = os.path.split(curpath)
             if not dummy: