Re: [minor] two tests broken when run with a --root directory that's a symlink

Michael Haggerty [off-list ref] writes:

I ran into the same problem a while ago, and submitted a patch series
that fixes t4035 (whose problems are related to GIT_CEILING_DIRECTORIES):

    http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/206633

Junio didn't like the approach so much and I haven't yet had time to
submit a revised version.

I like the approach of comparing each element of CEILING and the
directory not before but after resolving any symlinks in them.

My comments was only about the implementation that seemed to make
the API layering boundary more complex than necessary.