From 418566b6fdcc0eb1b5549d0742366aa13a7ff277 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Johannes Schindelin Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2009 17:30:51 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Fix 'git diff --no-index' with a non-existing symlink target When trying to find out mode changes, we should not access the symlink targets using stat(); instead we use lstat() so that the diff does not fail trying to find a non-existing symlink target. Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano --- diff-no-index.c | 2 +- t/t4011-diff-symlink.sh | 7 +++++++ 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/diff-no-index.c b/diff-no-index.c index 60ed17470..0dbd9dad8 100644 --- a/diff-no-index.c +++ b/diff-no-index.c @@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ static int get_mode(const char *path, int *mode) *mode = 0; else if (!strcmp(path, "-")) *mode = create_ce_mode(0666); - else if (stat(path, &st)) + else if (lstat(path, &st)) return error("Could not access '%s'", path); else *mode = st.st_mode; diff --git a/t/t4011-diff-symlink.sh b/t/t4011-diff-symlink.sh index 02efecae3..9055c8b31 100755 --- a/t/t4011-diff-symlink.sh +++ b/t/t4011-diff-symlink.sh @@ -82,4 +82,11 @@ test_expect_success \ git diff-index -M -p $tree > current && compare_diff_patch current expected' +test_expect_success \ + 'diff symlinks with non-existing targets' \ + 'ln -s narf pinky && + ln -s take\ over brain && + test_must_fail git diff --no-index pinky brain > output 2> output.err && + grep narf output && + ! grep error output.err' test_done -- 2.26.2