Re: git-config: replaces ~/.gitconfig symlink with real file

"Bradford Smith" <bradford.carl.smith@gmail.com> writes:

I suspect that is going down a wrong path.

We use the sequence:

	fd = creat("temporary location");
        write(fd, ...);
        close(fd);
        rename("temporary location", "final location");

in quite a lot of codepaths. I think they can be factored out, to take the "final location" (and perhaps a suggested temporary directory) as an parameter, and that code can check that "final location" is a symlink to somewhere else and create the temporary next to the target file.