From 1425ff45924d4bbb80c49d6015a22d4cb1ce12e0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Gaute Ravndal <gaute.ravndal@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2025 20:00:19 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] resolve symbolic links to nixpkgs

Fixes version detection if nixpkgs is a symbolic link into the nix
store.
---
 direnvrc | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/direnvrc b/direnvrc
index 4bd03da..4dd7a32 100644
--- a/direnvrc
+++ b/direnvrc
@@ -361,7 +361,7 @@ use_nix() {
 
   local layout_dir path version
   layout_dir=$(direnv_layout_dir)
-  if path=$(_nix eval --impure --expr "<nixpkgs>" 2>/dev/null); then
+  if path=$(realpath -e "$(_nix eval --impure --expr "<nixpkgs>" 2>/dev/null)"); then
     if [[ -f "${path}/.version-suffix" ]]; then
       version=$(<"${path}/.version-suffix")
     elif [[ -f "${path}/.git/HEAD" ]]; then