From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2007 02:42:07 +0000 (-0800)
Subject: merge-recursive: fix longstanding bug in merging symlinks
X-Git-Tag: v1.5.0.2~4^2
X-Git-Url: http://git.tremily.us/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=17cd29b25c0f480a3c6e1dd9617d9c6046e3c280;p=git.git

merge-recursive: fix longstanding bug in merging symlinks

Commit 3af244ca added unlink(2) before running symlink(2) to
update the working tree with the merge result, but it was
unlinking a wrong path.  This resulted in loss of the path
pointed by a symlink.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
---

diff --git a/merge-recursive.c b/merge-recursive.c
index 58989424d..397a7ad85 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'",