# [PATCH] merge-recursive: fix longstanding bug in merging symlinks

1 messages from 2007-02-26 to 2007-02-26. Participants: Junio C Hamano.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/6966

## Junio C Hamano, 2007-02-26 02:47

Subject: [PATCH] merge-recursive: fix longstanding bug in merging symlinks
Message-ID: <7vtzx9prcj.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/7vtzx9prcj.fsf%40assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net

```
Commit 3af244ca added unlink before running symlink to update
the working tree with the merge result, but it was unlinking a
wrong file  This resulted in loss of the path pointed by a
symlink.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
---
 * This and the fix to merge-index are meant for maint to be
   included in 1.5.0.2.

 merge-recursive.c |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/merge-recursive.c b/merge-recursive.c
index 5898942..397a7ad 100644
--- a/merge-recursive.c
+++ b/merge-recursive.c
@@ -589,7 +589,7 @@ static void update_file_flags(const unsigned char *sha,
 			memcpy(lnk, buf, size);
 			lnk[size] = '\0';
 			mkdir_p(path, 0777);
-			unlink(lnk);
+			unlink(path);
 			symlink(lnk, path);
 		} else
 			die("do not know what to do with %06o %s '%s'",
-- 
1.5.0.1.793.gedfd5

```