From 9070f11df00d5b38e6f8c9c121e0821e540ef06e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Kevin Turner <83819+keturn@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2026 17:00:50 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] replace python (relpath) with realpath

realpath (with its --relative-to option) was added to coreutils v8.15
in 2012.

https://github.com/coreutils/coreutils/commit/77ea441f79aa115f79b47d9c1fc9c0004c5c7111
---
 deer | 5 +----
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/deer b/deer
index 6539b9f..3757d74 100644
--- a/deer
+++ b/deer
@@ -261,10 +261,7 @@ deer-get-relative()
 {
     local TMP
     TMP=${1:-${DEER_DIRNAME%/}/$DEER_BASENAME[$DEER_DIRNAME]}
-    TMP="`python -c '
-import sys, os
-print(os.path.relpath(sys.argv[1], sys.argv[2]))
-' $TMP ${DEER_STARTDIR:-$PWD}`"
+    TMP="`realpath --relative-to ${DEER_STARTDIR:-$PWD} $TMP`"
     print -R $TMP:q
 }