From: Junio C Hamano Date: Wed, 08 Aug 2007 21:17:43 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] checkout_entry: only try to create directories when no file existed there Message-ID: <7v4pj93evc.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> In-Reply-To: Johannes Schindelin writes: > It is obvious that we do not have to create directories when the file we > want to check out already existed. It is not so obvious to me. In fact I vaguely recall we had complaint about opposite case where we did not honor a symlink to be checked out as a symlink because an earlier branch had it as a directory.