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diff --git a/git-sh-setup.sh b/git-sh-setup.sh
index 2142308bcc..838233926f 100755
--- a/git-sh-setup.sh
+++ b/git-sh-setup.sh
@@ -85,27 +85,14 @@ cd_to_toplevel () {
cdup=$(git rev-parse --show-cdup)
if test ! -z "$cdup"
then
- 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 $phys, the toplevel of the working tree"
+ # The "-P" option says to follow "physical" directory
+ # structure instead of following symbolic links. When cdup is
+ # "../", this means following the ".." entry in the current
+ # directory instead textually removing a symlink path element
+ # from the PWD shell variable. The "-P" behavior is more
+ # consistent with the C-style chdir used by most of Git.
+ cd -P "$cdup" || {
+ echo >&2 "Cannot chdir to $cdup, the toplevel of the working tree"
exit 1
}
fi