# t7900 failures when $HOME is symlinked

- From: Philippe Blain \<hidden\>
- Date: 2021-12-03 14:56:45 
- List: git
- Page: https://ratatoskr.run/git/2021/12/7913854
- Thread: https://ratatoskr.run/git/2021/12/7913854/t.md

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Hi Stolee,

I noticed two failures, t7900.32 and t7900.36, on a system where
$HOME is symlinked, i.e.

    $ cd $HOME && pwd
    /home/me
    $ pwd -P
    /some/other/path/me

These two tests use 'pfx = $(cd $HOME && pwd)', so $pfx is '/home/me',
but the actual path that gets written by Git is canonicalized, i.e.
'/some/other/path/me'. I think a simple fix would be to use 'pwd -P'
instead, which fixes it for me.

Cheers,

Philippe.
```