Fix error with git repo discovery and symlinks.#8186
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submodules: update cargo from 90931d9b3 to 258c89644 Changes: ```` Remove unnecessary loop in `maybe_spurious` Fix error with git repo discovery and symlinks. Allow failure when setting file mtime. Support multiple `--target` flags on the CLI build-std: Don't treat std like a "local" package. Allow `cargo package --list` even for things that don't package. ```` I'd like to get rust-lang/cargo#8186 into nightly asap. :) r? @ehuss
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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.rsscript. Another scenario iscargo build --manifest-path somelink/Cargo.tomlwheresomelinkis 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