Symlinked .gitignore files spawn "Too many levels of symbolic links" errors

[brettcs]

I work in a Git repository where a lot of subdirectories have their own .gitignore file. Some of these files are symbolic links to another .gitignore elsewhere in the repository.

Expected behavior

I can use projectile-find-file without any problems.

Actual behavior

As soon as I start projectile-find-file, the *projectile-files-errors* buffer pops up to report:

warning: unable to access 'subdir2/.gitignore': Too many levels of symbolic links

There's one such line for each symlinked .gitignore, and a new page of errors each time I run projectile-find-file.

Environment & Version information

Projectile version information

Projectile 2.7.0

Emacs version

28.2

Operating system

Debian 12