Fix error with git repo discovery and symlinks. #8186
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There are some cases where Cargo would generate an error when attempting to discover if a package is inside a git repo when the git repo has a symlink somewhere in its ancestor paths. One way this manifests is with
cargo install --git ...
where the given repo has abuild.rs
script. Another scenario iscargo build --manifest-path somelink/Cargo.toml
wheresomelink
is a symlink to the real thing.The issue is that libgit2 is normalizing paths and removing symlinks, but the path Cargo uses is the path with symlinks. This was introduced in #8095.
The solution is to try to canonicalize both paths when trying to get a repo-relative path. If that fails for whatever reason, it shouldn't generate an error since this is just a "best effort" attempt to use git to list package files.
Fixes #8183