The p4 program is finicky about making sure the recorded client Root
matches the current working directory. The way it discovers the latter
seems to be to inspect shell variable $PWD. This could involve symlinks,
that while leading to the same place as the client Root, look different,
and cause p4 to fail.
Resolve all client paths using "test-path-utils real_path $path". This
removes ".." and resolves all symlinks.
Discovered while running with --root=/dev/shm, which is a link to
/run/shm.
Signed-off-by: Pete Wyckoff <pw@padd.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>