Handle symlinks graciously

This patch converts a stat() to an lstat() call, thereby fixing the case
when the date of a symlink was not the same as the one recorded in the
index. The included test case demonstrates this.

This is for the case that the symlink points to a non-existing file. If
the file exists, worse things than just an error message happen.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
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Johannes Schindelin
2005-12-26 22:31:42 +01:00
committed by Junio C Hamano
parent c97451ce09
commit 975b31dc6e
2 changed files with 86 additions and 1 deletions

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@ -650,7 +650,7 @@ static void diff_fill_sha1_info(struct diff_filespec *one)
if (DIFF_FILE_VALID(one)) {
if (!one->sha1_valid) {
struct stat st;
if (stat(one->path, &st) < 0)
if (lstat(one->path, &st) < 0)
die("stat %s", one->path);
if (index_path(one->sha1, one->path, &st, 0))
die("cannot hash %s\n", one->path);