Re: [PATCH] difftool: avoid symlinks when reusing worktree files

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Oct 30, 2015, 16:19 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqqio5omirl.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <20151030072857.GA15031@gmail.com>

David Aguilar <davvid@gmail.com> writes:

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>> +	if (-l "$workdir/$file" || ! -e _) {
>>  		return (0, $null_sha1);
>>  	}
>
> The "-e _" shorthand caught my eye ~ I didn't know perl could do that!
> Nice.
>
> Underline is barely mentioned in perlvar, but it's obvious what
> (I think) it means, and since Perl is DWIM, it must be right. ;-)

It is mentioned under -X (i.e. the headline for -f, -e, -d, ... tests) in perlfunc with an interesting example of doing an explicit stat() first and then running many variants of -X with _ as the target.