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 have a use-case like I have, where I want to access only certain files with hotkeys without asking, you can use the file-truename function which resolves all symbolic links in the file and therefor prevents the annoying question without changing the default for everything else.

(global-set-key (kbd "") (lambda () (interactive)
  (find-file (file-truename user-init-file))))