cd_to_toplevel takes the output of git rev-parse --show-cdup and feeds it to cd. The problem is that cd uses PWD to do what the user means when saying cd .., i.e. it goes to /foo when in /foo/bar even though /foo/bar might be a symlink. Example: (in an existing git repository) /tmp/foo$ mkdir -p a/b /tmp/foo$ ln -s a/b c /tmp/foo$ cd c /tmp/foo/c$ git fetch . master:master git-fetch: line 108: /FETCH_HEAD: Permission denied Is there any way to tell cd to ignore $PWD? Another option is to have a new option to rev-parse which shows the absolute path to tho toplevel. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html