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Re: [PATCH] checkout_entry: only try to create directories when no file existed there

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Aug 8, 2007, 22:40 UTC
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Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:
> Now, if we have to remove it, we did a stat() before that.  It succeeded.  
> So we know that "a/b/c/d/e/f/" exists.  It might contain some symlinks, 
> but it exists.

Yes, it is exactly the thing. It might contain a/b/c as symlink but the index does not say a/b/c _IS_ a symlink, and the code "fixes" that. Otherwise, you would get inconsistent result from "git checkout" depending on random symlink you happen to have in your working tree.

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