Report symlink failures in merge-recursive

raalkml · gitster · commit 304dcf262e3f · 2008-12-04T18:05:51.000-08:00
Signed-off-by: Alex Riesen &lt;raa.lkml@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano &lt;gitster@pobox.com&gt;
diff --git a/merge-recursive.c b/merge-recursive.c
@@ -525,7 +525,8 @@ static void update_file_flags(struct merge_options *o,
 			char *lnk = xmemdupz(buf, size);
 			safe_create_leading_directories_const(path);
 			unlink(path);
-			symlink(lnk, path);
+			if (symlink(lnk, path))
+				die("failed to symlink %s: %s", path, strerror(errno));
 			free(lnk);
 		} else
 			die("do not know what to do with %06o %s '%s'",
