Re: [BUG] git_path() returns relative paths

On Sun, Jul 28, 2013 at 3:49 PM, Ramkumar Ramachandra
[off-list ref] wrote:

Duy Nguyen wrote:

quoted

I think instead of letting the kernel walk the path, emacs does it by
itself.

If this were true, shouldn't we be able to reproduce the behavior with
my no-submodules symlink testcase?  How can it resolve symlinks in one
case, and not in the other case?

In the no-submodules symlink test case, the path given to the editor
is .git/COMMIT_EDITMSG, no following ".." back in the symlink target.
This bug can be reproduced without git involved:

mkdir z z/a z/b
echo ha >z/a/file
ln -s z/b
cd b
cat ../a/file
emacs ../a/file # fail to open 'file'
-- 
Duy