From: Clemens Buchacher <drizzd@aon.at>
Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2011 21:49:01 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Demonstrate breakage: checkout overwrites untracked symlink with directory
Message-ID: <20110210214901.GA25437@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <7vpqr0n51f.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Wed, Feb 09, 2011 at 03:48:12PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> 
> Perhaps can-clobber-to-checkout would be a good candidate.

How about leading_path_in_use() instead? Whether files in the path
can be clobbered or not is checked in a separate step, which is
currently called ok_to_remove().

Clemens