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

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Aug 8, 2007, 22:54 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0708082345540.21857@racer.site>
In-Reply-To: <7vejid1wh2.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

Hi,

On Wed, 8 Aug 2007, Junio C Hamano wrote:

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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.

Ah, I see what you're getting to.

If user had a symlink called, say "syml", to, say $HOME, and now switches to a branch which has "syml/.bash_profile", then the given code path would try to replace the symlink with a directory.

Hmm.

Ciao, Dscho