Re: [PATCH v3 0/8] Fix GIT_CEILING_DIRECTORIES that contain symlinks

On Tue, 19 Feb 2013, Junio C Hamano wrote:

Assuming that this says "yes":

	D=/afs/athena.mit.edu/user/a/n/andersk/my/dir
        cd "$D"
        test "$(/bin/pwd)" = "$D" && echo yes

Correct.

Perhaps existing of an empty element in the list would do?  E.g.

	GIT_CEILING_DIRECTORIES=:/afs/athena.mit.edu/users/a/n/andesk

or something like that.  And in such a case, we do not run realpath on 
the elements on the list before comparing them with what we get from 
getcwd(3).

That seems reasonable, and has the advantage of backwards compatibility 
with versions before 1.8.1.2, I guess.

Anders