## vim:ft=zsh
## Written by Frank Terbeck <ft@bewatermyfriend.org>
## Distributed under the same BSD-ish license as zsh itself.

setopt localoptions NO_shwordsplit
local dirname=$1
local basedir="." realbasedir

realbasedir="$(VCS_INFO_realpath ${basedir})"
while [[ ${realbasedir} != '/' ]]; do
    [[ -r ${realbasedir} ]] || return 1
    if [[ -n ${vcs_comm[detect_need_file]} ]] ; then
        [[ -d ${basedir}/${dirname} ]] && \
        [[ -e ${basedir}/${dirname}/${vcs_comm[detect_need_file]} ]] && \
            break
    else
        [[ -d ${basedir}/${dirname} ]] && break
    fi

    basedir=${basedir}/..
    realbasedir="$(VCS_INFO_realpath ${basedir})"
done

[[ ${realbasedir} == "/" ]] && return 1
vcs_comm[basedir]=${realbasedir}
return 0