From: Philippe <bqobctqyemmeacqxbrsaury3l4ka@quarantine.de>
Date: Mon, 02 Dec 2019 12:23:00 GMT
Subject: Re: difftool fails with dangling symlinks, writes to targets outside of the repository
Message-ID: <c23d23d8-8a08-9ee7-d148-77b1f4611606@quarantine.de>
In-Reply-To: <7e04799d-c03c-ac28-604d-ec4d30029d44@quarantine.de>

Hi all,

since that "difftool overwrites files outside of the git
repository"-thingy is apparently not considered a bug, could you please
point me to the correct usage of difftool or a workaround?

To recall the situation:
- git repo contains a symlink pointing outside of the repository to a
non-existing file
- that symlink gets replaced by a regular file
- using 'git difftool -d ${oldstate}..${newstate}' overwrites the file
the symlink was pointing to (which might fail if the target is not writable)

Kind regards

Philippe