From 57af9b98cffbb5030b93eab8c26cb19f7f1f2ea6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Nicolas Viennot and Sid Nair <nviennot+sidnair@viennot.biz>
Date: Sat, 7 Jul 2012 13:45:52 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Follow symlinks

Previously, symlinks were not resolved. Thus, symlinks outside a git
directory would have no git dir even if they linked to a file in a git
directory.
---
 plugin/fugitive.vim | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/plugin/fugitive.vim b/plugin/fugitive.vim
index a03cfb8..cb4f2ae 100644
--- a/plugin/fugitive.vim
+++ b/plugin/fugitive.vim
@@ -108,7 +108,7 @@ function! fugitive#extract_git_dir(path) abort
   if s:shellslash(a:path) =~# '^fugitive://.*//'
     return matchstr(s:shellslash(a:path), '\C^fugitive://\zs.\{-\}\ze//')
   endif
-  let root = s:shellslash(simplify(fnamemodify(a:path, ':p:s?[\/]$??')))
+  let root = s:shellslash(simplify(fnamemodify(resolve(a:path), ':p:s?[\/]$??')))
   let previous = ""
   while root !=# previous
     let dir = s:sub(root, '[\/]$', '') . '/.git'