gemini-cli - 💡(How to fix) Fix Symlink path creates a different session store [1 participants]

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private normalizePath(projectPath: string): string {
    let resolved = path.resolve(projectPath);
    if (os.platform() === 'win32') {
      resolved = resolved.toLowerCase();
    }
    return resolved;
  }

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export function resolveToRealPath(pathStr: string): string {
    // ...
    return robustRealpath(path.resolve(resolvedPath));
  }

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What happened?

Project registry identity is based on path.resolve(projectPath). That normalizes relative segments, but it does not follow symlinks. So /home/me/app and /data/projects/app can point to the same physical folder but get different project identifiers. Sessions created from one path are invisible from the other. The repo already has a realpath helper, but this registry path does not use it.

packages/core/src/config/projectRegistry.ts:95

  private normalizePath(projectPath: string): string {
    let resolved = path.resolve(projectPath);
    if (os.platform() === 'win32') {
      resolved = resolved.toLowerCase();
    }
    return resolved;
  }

packages/core/src/utils/paths.ts:413

  export function resolveToRealPath(pathStr: string): string {
    // ...
    return robustRealpath(path.resolve(resolvedPath));
  }

What did you expect to happen?

Session storage should be based on the real physical project path. If two paths resolve to the same directory, they should share the same session history. Using resolveToRealPath() before computing the registry key would make behavior match user expectations. If changing this affects existing stores, migrate or alias old entries.

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