Emacs and symbolic links

Question

Say I have a symbolic link at /home/.bashrc that points to an actual .bashrc file somewhere else: /some/other/path/.bashrc that is under a git reposito

Answer 1

If you don't know or care about Emacs' vc package, just do

(setq vc-handled-backends nil)

which entirely disables vc as well as this annoying message about following symbolic links.

Then, you'll probably want to customize find-file-visit-truename depending on whether or not you want finding a file to follow symlinks or not.