From 13641a003143814fa9b73403ec2e90cd71989bd1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Sam Porter <92305641+samdporter@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Mon, 8 Jun 2026 16:54:47 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] fix: make git cleanliness check look at parent repos to avoid
 errors when mlops not run from repo root

---
 mlops/Experiment.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/mlops/Experiment.py b/mlops/Experiment.py
index e8e56ff..eb904a2 100644
--- a/mlops/Experiment.py
+++ b/mlops/Experiment.py
@@ -96,7 +96,7 @@ def check_dirty(self) -> bool:
         :return:
         """
         logger.debug('Comparing to remote git repository')
-        repo = Repo(self.project_path)
+        repo = Repo(self.project_path, search_parent_directories=True)
         head = repo.head.ref
         tracking = head.tracking_branch()
         local_commits_ahead_iter = head.commit.iter_items(repo, f'{tracking.path}..{head.path}')