From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: RFC: git cat-file --follow-symlinks?
Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2015 15:19:07 -0700
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Jeff King wrote:

>   1. Git has to make a decision about what to do in corner cases. What
>      is our cwd for relative links? The project root?

I don't follow.  Isn't symlink resolution always relative to the
symlink, regardless of cwd?

Thanks,
Jonathan