Error at launch with symlink .git file

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Describe the bug

I'm working in a project that recently underwent a large file migration. Part of that migration was changing the .git file to be a symlink to another location on disk.
After a fresh clone of the repository, when I try and open lazygit in the project folder, I get the following error:

2026/03/26 11:00:17 An error occurred! Please create an issue at: https://github.com/jesseduffield/lazygit/issues

*errors.errorString Error getting repo paths: 'git -C /home/lee/Documents/projects/core/firmware/protected/redacted rev-parse --path-format=absolute --show-toplevel --absolute-git-dir --git-common-dir --is-bare-repository --show-superproject-working-tree' failed: /home/lee/Documents/projects/core/firmware/protected/redacted
/home/lee/Documents/projects/core/.repo/projects/firmware/protected/redacted.git
/home/lee/Documents/projects/core/.repo/projects/firmware/protected/redacted.git
false
BUG: submodule.c:2455: returned path string doesn't match cwd?

/home/runner/work/lazygit/lazygit/pkg/commands/git.go:67 (0xa761d1)
/home/runner/work/lazygit/lazygit/pkg/gui/gui.go:323 (0xc32c25)
/home/runner/work/lazygit/lazygit/pkg/gui/gui.go:883 (0xc37ab6)
/home/runner/work/lazygit/lazygit/pkg/gui/gui.go:904 (0xc38328)
/home/runner/work/lazygit/lazygit/pkg/utils/utils.go:80 (0x802cb6)
/home/runner/work/lazygit/lazygit/pkg/gui/gui.go:903 (0xc3825f)
/home/runner/work/lazygit/lazygit/pkg/app/app.go:277 (0xc99bba)
/home/runner/work/lazygit/lazygit/pkg/app/app.go:48 (0xc99b4a)
/home/runner/work/lazygit/lazygit/pkg/app/entry_point.go:177 (0xc9bed6)
/home/runner/work/lazygit/lazygit/main.go:23 (0xc9d278)
/opt/hostedtoolcache/go/1.25.7/x64/src/internal/runtime/atomic/types.go:194 (0x44a57d)
/opt/hostedtoolcache/go/1.25.7/x64/src/runtime/asm_amd64.s:1693 (0x488a61)

In this case, my working directory is /home/lee/Documents/projects/core/firmware/protected/redacted (which is the location of the symlink .git file), and the target of the .git symlink is /home/lee/Documents/projects/core/.repo/projects/firmware/protected/redacted.git.

If I open lazygit in any subfolders, it doesn't recognize that it is within a git folder structure.

Calling git commands via the command line work normally (ie. git status).

To Reproduce

Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Create a project that contains a .git file which is symlink'd to another location.
2. Open lazygit within the directory that contains the symlink'd .git file.

Expected behavior

lazygit should behave normally and open the project like it would without a symlink.

Version info:

commit=2f6d20275afd5fc9b623500c9194a2c732936014, build date=2026-03-09T19:51:31Z, build source=binaryRelease, version=0.60.0, os=linux, arch=amd64, git version=2.43.0

Terminal info:

GNOME Terminal, Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS