From b6f21e59ea97c2c80e89e65e719d3299dddc0fc6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Anna Henningsen <anna@addaleax.net>
Date: Sat, 14 Feb 2026 18:38:56 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] fix(monorepo-tools): fix precommit hook

This script was broken in some bizarre ways -- for example, it
assumed that "monorepo root" and "root" were a) different and
b) located at a fixed relative path to the filename of the
precommit script, or it assumed that the repository would
always have a `.gitmodules` file -- that make it very unclear
to me how these issues went unnoticed for as long as they did.
---
 packages/monorepo-tools/src/precommit.ts | 27 +++++++++++++++++-------
 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/packages/monorepo-tools/src/precommit.ts b/packages/monorepo-tools/src/precommit.ts
index bf8d573e..142c9a67 100644
--- a/packages/monorepo-tools/src/precommit.ts
+++ b/packages/monorepo-tools/src/precommit.ts
@@ -6,24 +6,35 @@ import pkgUp from 'pkg-up';
 import { promisify } from 'util';
 import { execFile } from 'child_process';
 import * as fs from 'fs/promises';
+import findUp from 'find-up';
 const execFileAsync = promisify(execFile);
 
-const monorepoRoot = path.resolve(__dirname, '..', '..');
-const repoRoot = path.resolve(monorepoRoot, '..');
-
 async function main(fileList: string[]) {
+  const monorepoGit = await findUp('.git', {
+    cwd: __dirname,
+    type: 'directory',
+  });
+  if (!monorepoGit) {
+    throw new Error(
+      `Could not find .git directory for monorepo starting from ${__dirname}`,
+    );
+  }
+  const monorepoRoot = path.dirname(monorepoGit);
+
   const filesToPrettify: string[] = [];
 
   const submodules = [
     ...(
-      await fs.readFile(path.resolve(repoRoot, '.gitmodules'), {
-        encoding: 'utf8',
-      })
+      await fs
+        .readFile(path.resolve(monorepoRoot, '.gitmodules'), {
+          encoding: 'utf8',
+        })
+        .catch(() => '')
     ).matchAll(/^\s+path = (?<submodulePath>.*)$/gm),
   ]
     .map((r) => r.groups?.submodulePath)
-    .filter((p) => p)
-    .map((p) => path.resolve(repoRoot, p!));
+    .filter((p): p is string => !!p)
+    .map((p) => path.resolve(monorepoRoot, p));
 
   await Promise.all(
     fileList.map(async (filePath) => {