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From: Vovan-VE <vovan-ve@yandex.ru>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [BUG] git-stash confused when directory replaced with symlink
Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2014 19:54:53 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <op.xa2a9r00tcop7l@dev-server> (raw)

Hello!

Looks like a bug. `git stash` fails with fatal error, when whole  
subdirectory is replaced with a symlink.

I'm using latest Git/1.8.5.4 under Ubuntu 12.04.4 x64.

Steps to reproduce initial state:

     $ git init
     $ mkdir dir
     $ touch dir/file.txt
     $ git add dir/file.txt
     $ git commit -m 'Initial commit'

     $ rm -r dir
     $ ln -s -T /something/does/not/matter dir
     $ git status
     # Changes not staged for commit:
     #
     #	deleted:    dir/file.txt
     #
     # Untracked files:
     #
     #	dir

Now the bug itself:

     $ git stash
     error: 'dir/file.txt' is beyond a symbolic link
     fatal: Unable to process path dir/file.txt
     Cannot save the current worktree state

Target of the symlink doesn't matter, as far as I understand.
Doing `git add --all` or `git rm --cached dir/file.txt` doesn't change the  
result - still fatal.

Git tries to delete file "dir/file.txt", which does not exist. It confused  
by existing "dir".

However `git checkout .` works fine: symlink deleted, directory restored.

-- 
Vovan-VE

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