From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Sat, 18 Aug 2012 20:36:04 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] test: some testcases failed if cwd is on a symlink
Message-ID: <7vfw7krl8r.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <loom.20120818T162226-852@post.gmane.org>

Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu> writes:

> I can work around the problem by using "--root=/run/shm". 

I do not necessarily think it is a work around.

A low-impact approach may be to update the part that parses --root
option to do

	root=$(...)
        root=$( cd "$root" && /bin/pwd )

or something.