From f4294b83fb11cba28a040f157cee89bff229bd68 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Kovid Goyal <kovid@kovidgoyal.net>
Date: Sat, 11 May 2019 12:59:01 +0530
Subject: [PATCH] Add a rationale for PWD

---
 kitty/child.py | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/kitty/child.py b/kitty/child.py
index 50a4ac460..d6c92a9c6 100644
--- a/kitty/child.py
+++ b/kitty/child.py
@@ -169,6 +169,9 @@ class Child:
         env['TERM'] = self.opts.term
         env['COLORTERM'] = 'truecolor'
         if self.cwd:
+            # needed incase cwd is a symlink, in which case shells
+            # can use it to display the current directory name rather
+            # than the resolved path
             env['PWD'] = self.cwd
         if os.path.isdir(terminfo_dir):
             env['TERMINFO'] = terminfo_dir