Enable gh-deploy to work if the mkdocs.yml is not in the repo root

Fixes #578

docs/about/release-notes.md

@@ -17,11 +17,13 @@ You can determine your currently installed version using `mkdocs --version`:
 
 * Improve Unicode handling by ensuring that all YAML strings are loaded as Unicode.
 * Remove dependancy on the six library. (#583)
+* Remove dependancy on the ghp-import library. (#547)
 * Add `--quiet` and `--verbose` options to all subcommands.
 * Add short options (`-a`) to most command line options.
 * Add copyright footer for readthedocs theme.
 * Bugfix: Fix a JavaScript encoding problem when searching with spaces. (#586)
 * Stack traces are no longer displayed on socket errors, just an error message.
+* Bugfix: gh-deploy now works if the mkdocs.yml is not in the git repo root (#578)
 
 ## Version 0.13.3 (2015-06-02)
 

mkdocs/gh_deploy.py

@@ -8,10 +8,12 @@ log = logging.getLogger(__name__)
 
 def gh_deploy(config, message=None):
 
-    if not os.path.exists('.git'):
-        log.info('Cannot deploy - this directory does not appear to be a git '
-                 'repository')
-        return
+    proc = subprocess.Popen(['git', 'rev-parse', '--is-inside-work-tree'],
+                            stdout=subprocess.PIPE, stderr=subprocess.PIPE)
+    proc.communicate()
+    if proc.wait() != 0:
+        log.error('Cannot deploy - this directory does not appear to be a git '
+                  'repository')
 
     command = ['ghp-import', '-p', config['site_dir']]