A few functions to make working with python inside git repos easier.

gitpath.root() returns the absolute path of the repository root directory

gitpath.abspath(_rel_path_) returns an absolute path for a path given relative to the root directory, so assuming, this repo resites in /home/maxnoe/python-gitpath:

import gitpath

print(gitpath.abspath('setup.py'))

Will give you: /home/maxnoe/python-gitpath/setup.py

Installation

pip install git+https://github.com/ruxi/python-gitpath.git