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From: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] Teach "git branch" about --new-workdir
Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2007 11:42:18 +0100 (BST)
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Hi,

On Mon, 23 Jul 2007, Johannes Schindelin wrote:

> 	struct stat st;
> 	int i = 0;
> 
> 	while (i++ < 10 && !lstat(path, &st) && S_ISLNK(st.st_mode)) {
> 		ssize_t sz;
> 		static char target[PATH_MAX];
> 		sz = readlink(path, target, sizeof(target));
> 		if (sz < 0)
> 			die("Cannot readlink %s", path);
> 		else
> 			path = target;

Probably this should be "make_absolute_path(target)" after applying the 
minipatch I provided elsewhere.

Ciao,
Dscho