# [PATCH] Add tests to catch problems with un-unlinkable symlinks

1 messages from 2008-03-19 to 2008-03-19. Participants: Junio C Hamano.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/12750

## Junio C Hamano, 2008-03-19 04:59

Subject: [PATCH] Add tests to catch problems with un-unlinkable symlinks
Message-ID: <7v7ifz5mx0.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/7v7ifz5mx0.fsf%40gitster.siamese.dyndns.org

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This currently fails not because we refuse to check out, but because we
detect error but incorrectly discard it in the callchain.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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 * The next one will fix it.

 t/t1004-read-tree-m-u-wf.sh |   35 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 files changed, 35 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/t/t1004-read-tree-m-u-wf.sh b/t/t1004-read-tree-m-u-wf.sh
index 283e77c..1356148 100755
--- a/t/t1004-read-tree-m-u-wf.sh
+++ b/t/t1004-read-tree-m-u-wf.sh
@@ -157,6 +157,41 @@ test_expect_success '3-way not overwriting local changes (their side)' '
 
 '
 
+test_expect_success 'funny symlink in work tree' '
+
+	git reset --hard &&
+	git checkout -b sym-b side-b &&
+	mkdir -p a &&
+	>a/b &&
+	git add a/b &&
+	git commit -m "side adds a/b" &&
+
+	rm -fr a &&
+	git checkout -b sym-a side-a &&
+	mkdir -p a &&
+	ln -s ../b a/b &&
+	git add a/b &&
+	git commit -m "we add a/b" &&
+
+	git read-tree -m -u sym-a sym-a sym-b
+
+'
+
+test_expect_failure 'funny symlink in work tree, un-unlink-able' '
+
+	rm -fr a b &&
+	git reset --hard &&
+
+	git checkout sym-a &&
+	chmod a-w a &&
+	test_must_fail git read-tree -m -u sym-a sym-a sym-b
+
+'
+
+# clean-up from the above test
+chmod a+w a
+rm -fr a b
+
 test_expect_success 'D/F setup' '
 
 	git reset --hard &&
-- 
1.5.5.rc0.122.g8e28f

```