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Subject: Re: [PATCH] checkout_entry: only try to create directories when no file existed there
Date: Wed, 08 Aug 2007 14:17:43 -0700
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Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:

> It is obvious that we do not have to create directories when the file we
> want to check out already existed.

It is not so obvious to me.  In fact I vaguely recall we had
complaint about opposite case where we did not honor a symlink
to be checked out as a symlink because an earlier branch had it
as a directory.