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Diffstat (limited to 'entry.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | entry.c | 34 |
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 22 deletions
@@ -9,35 +9,25 @@ static void create_directories(const char *path, const struct checkout *state) const char *slash = path; while ((slash = strchr(slash+1, '/')) != NULL) { - struct stat st; - int stat_status; - len = slash - path; memcpy(buf, path, len); buf[len] = 0; - if (len <= state->base_dir_len) - /* - * checkout-index --prefix=<dir>; <dir> is - * allowed to be a symlink to an existing - * directory. - */ - stat_status = stat(buf, &st); - else - /* - * if there currently is a symlink, we would - * want to replace it with a real directory. - */ - stat_status = lstat(buf, &st); - - if (!stat_status && S_ISDIR(st.st_mode)) + /* + * For 'checkout-index --prefix=<dir>', <dir> is + * allowed to be a symlink to an existing directory, + * and we set 'state->base_dir_len' below, such that + * we test the path components of the prefix with the + * stat() function instead of the lstat() function. + */ + if (has_dirs_only_path(len, buf, state->base_dir_len)) continue; /* ok, it is already a directory. */ /* - * We know stat_status == 0 means something exists - * there and this mkdir would fail, but that is an - * error codepath; we do not care, as we unlink and - * mkdir again in such a case. + * If this mkdir() would fail, it could be that there + * is already a symlink or something else exists + * there, therefore we then try to unlink it and try + * one more time to create the directory. */ if (mkdir(buf, 0777)) { if (errno == EEXIST && state->force && |