bug: git submodule add fails when .git is a symlink

From: Joey Hess <id@joeyh.name>
Date: Mar 1, 2016, 20:42 UTC
Message-ID: <20160301204218.GA4083@kitenet.net>

        git init gitdir
        mkdir worktree
        cd worktree
        ln -s ../gitdir/.git .git
        git submodule add /any/git/repo sub

        fatal: Could not chdir to '../../../sub': No such file or directory

Fairly sure this is a bug..

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