From 9fa1a19703a43ac8c246f99cd5a20268e53e09fc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "W. Trevor King" <wking@tremily.us>
Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2012 09:02:22 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Don't force loopy local symlinks if we've already linked a
 parent.

This avoids things like:

  .emacs.d/site-lisp -> .../patched-src/.emacs.d/site-lisp
  .emacs.d/site-lisp/querty.el -> querty.el

which is an endless, self-referential loop for querty.el.
---
 dotfiles.sh | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/dotfiles.sh b/dotfiles.sh
index 907fbe2..54ce7a3 100755
--- a/dotfiles.sh
+++ b/dotfiles.sh
@@ -592,6 +592,9 @@ function link()
 			if [ "${FORCE_LINK}" = 'no' ]; then
 				# don't prompt about --force-link, because this will happen a lot
 				continue  # already simlinked
+			elif [ ! -h "${TARGET}/${FILE}" ]; then
+				# target file/dir underneath an already symlinked dir
+				continue
 			else
 				# don't backup links that already point to the right place
 				BACKUP='no'
-- 
2.26.2