Treat symbolic links as valid tree paths for root purposes

Is this a question?
No.

Can this functionality be implemented utilizing API?
Don't think so.

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
I'm editing some project files that are symbolically linked in from somewhere else but his precludes nvim-tree showing a common root that isn't system root (/). For example:

the true path to these files is in /mnt/hgfs/vmshare/ . I am editing various files in /home/russianguyovic/project/ and have the files linked into /home/russianguyovic/project/headers/ (e.g. ln -s /mnt/hgfs/vmshare/ /home/russianguyovic/project/headers/). My tree root for all other files in the project is /home/russianguyovic/project/, however for the symbolically linked files that is not possible; the closest common root nvim-tree will acknowledge is the system root, / (root). If, while focused on some file /mnt/hgfs/vmshare/stuff.h one uses :cd /home/russianguyovic/project/, the tree very briefly blinks to the new root and then goes back to /mnt/hgfs/vmshare/. The solution would be for nvim-tree to look at link location rather than the target and treat that as the leaf from which to build a path back up towards system root.

Describe the solution you'd like
nvim-tree should look at the link location, not the target, to determine where that leaf is relative to system root. (I feel like I'm doing a terrible job of explaining this. I would like the two groups of files mentioned above to both be able to use /home/russianguyovic/project/ as their nvim-tree root, to reference my hypothetical example.)

Describe alternatives you've considered
The alternative is to just live with it.

Additional context
Imagine a directory structure like so with a linked-in folder, highlighted by a red box below:

nvim-tree correctly shows the target of the symbolic link, which is cool, but it uses only the target for directory traversal pathing to determine possible roots:

If I would like to see both .viminfo and config.toml in the tree at the same time, I can only do so by using system root as the root of the nvim-tree tree:

This is less than ideal.

Start by reproducing the linked-directory example from the issue and tracing how nvim-tree determines a common root from a focused file. Compare the symlink location with its target during traversal. Done means files under /mnt/hgfs/vmshare/ and /home/russianguyovic/project/ can share /home/russianguyovic/project/ as the tree root without falling back to /.