cdup=$(git rev-parse --show-cdup)
if test ! -z "$cdup"
then
- cd "$cdup" || {
- echo >&2 "Cannot chdir to $cdup, the toplevel of the working tree"
+ case "$cdup" in
+ /*)
+ # Not quite the same as if we did "cd -P '$cdup'" when
+ # $cdup contains ".." after symlink path components.
+ # Don't fix that case at least until Git switches to
+ # "cd -P" across the board.
+ phys="$cdup"
+ ;;
+ ..|../*|*/..|*/../*)
+ # Interpret $cdup relative to the physical, not logical, cwd.
+ # Probably /bin/pwd is more portable than passing -P to cd or pwd.
+ phys="$(unset PWD; /bin/pwd)/$cdup"
+ ;;
+ *)
+ # There's no "..", so no need to make things absolute.
+ phys="$cdup"
+ ;;
+ esac
+
+ cd "$phys" || {
+ echo >&2 "Cannot chdir to $phys, the toplevel of the working tree"
exit 1
}
fi