Removed all previously added invocations of os.path.realpath as it wasn't required afterall.

Byron · Byron · commit ede325d15ba9 · 2015-01-12T11:16:52.000+01:00
Turns out that the now removed `read_gitfile` functions applied os.path.realpath which caused the issue described in #224. Fixes #224
diff --git a/git/index/base.py b/git/index/base.py
@@ -535,7 +535,6 @@ def _to_relative_path(self, path):
         if it is not within our git direcotory"""
         if not os.path.isabs(path):
             return path
-        path = os.path.realpath(path)
         relative_path = path.replace(self.repo.working_tree_dir + os.sep, "")
         if relative_path == path:
             raise ValueError("Absolute path %r is not in git repository at %r" % (path, self.repo.working_tree_dir))
diff --git a/git/repo/base.py b/git/repo/base.py
@@ -128,14 +128,14 @@ def __init__(self, path=None, odbt=DefaultDBType, search_parent_directories=Fals
         # walk up the path to find the .git dir
         while curpath:
             if is_git_dir(curpath):
-                self.git_dir = os.path.realpath(curpath)
+                self.git_dir = curpath
                 self._working_tree_dir = os.path.dirname(self.git_dir)
                 break
 
             gitpath = find_git_dir(join(curpath, '.git'))
             if gitpath is not None:
-                self.git_dir = os.path.realpath(gitpath)
-                self._working_tree_dir = os.path.realpath(curpath)
+                self.git_dir = gitpath
+                self._working_tree_dir = curpath
                 break
 
             if not search_parent_directories:
