When symlinks in the working tree are manipulated using the absolute
path, git dereferences them, and tries to manipulate the link target
instead.
This applies to most high-level commands but prefix_path is the common
denominator for all of them.
Add a known-breakage tests using the prefix_path function, which
currently uses real_path, causing the dereference.
Signed-off-by: Martin Erik Werner <martinerikwerner@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
test "$sym" = "$(test-path-utils real_path "$dir2/syml")"
'
+test_expect_failure SYMLINKS 'prefix_path works with absolute paths to work tree symlinks' '
+ ln -s target symlink &&
+ test "$(test-path-utils prefix_path prefix "$(pwd)/symlink")" = "symlink"
+'
+
relative_path /foo/a/b/c/ /foo/a/b/ c/
relative_path /foo/a/b/c/ /foo/a/b c/
relative_path /foo/a//b//c/ ///foo/a/b// c/ POSIX