Subject: Re: [PATCH] Demonstrate breakage: checkout overwrites untracked symlink with directory

From: Clemens Buchacher <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 5 Feb 2011 19:33:51 +0100

Hi Hannes,

On Sat, Feb 05, 2011 at 07:18:44PM +0100, Johannes Sixt wrote:
>
> This adds tests where an untracked file and an untracked symlink are in the
> way where a directory should be created by 'git checkout'. Commit b1735b1a
> (do not overwrite files in leading path, 2010-12-14) fixed the case where
> a file is in the way, but the untracked symlink is still removed silently.

Indeed. It was my impression from reading the code that this
behavior is intentional. To protect symlinks from being overwritten
as well, I believe we simply have to remove FL_SYMLINK from the
following line in check_leading_path().

diff --git a/symlinks.c b/symlinks.c
index 3cacebd..034943b 100644
--- a/symlinks.c
+++ b/symlinks.c
@@ -223,7 +223,7 @@ int check_leading_path(const char *name, int len)
        int flags;
        int match_len = lstat_cache_matchlen(cache, name, len, &flags,
                           FL_SYMLINK|FL_NOENT|FL_DIR, USE_ONLY_LSTAT);
-       if (flags & (FL_SYMLINK|FL_NOENT))
+       if (flags & FL_NOENT)
                return 0;
        else if (flags & FL_DIR)
                return -1;

It does fix your testcase, but it may break others and I will have
to review the code to be sure.

Clemens