Allow removal of "path" when "path/file" exists.

When we used to have "path" as a file or a symlink, but now we
have "path/file" (or in general, have "path" as a directory), we
would want to remove "path" before adding "path/file".  The
logic in add_file_to_cache() only runs lstat() and does not
detect this case and fails to allow removing it in this case.
In the opposite case of having "path/file" in the index and
having "path" on the filesystem as a file or a symlink we do
allow removal of "path/file", so to be symmetric we should allow
it as well, without forcing the user to say --force-remove.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>

diff --git a/update-cache.c b/update-cache.c
index 1e4e62c..69b1afe 100644 (file)
--- a/update-cache.c
+++ b/update-cache.c
@@ -53,14 +53,23 @@ static void fill_stat_cache_info(struct cache_entry *ce, struct stat *st)
 
 static int add_file_to_cache(char *path)
 {
-       int size, namelen, option;
+       int size, namelen, option, status;
        struct cache_entry *ce;
        struct stat st;
        int fd;
        char *target;
 
-       if (lstat(path, &st) < 0) {
-               if (errno == ENOENT || errno == ENOTDIR) {
+       status = lstat(path, &st);
+       if (status < 0 || S_ISDIR(st.st_mode)) {
+               /* When we used to have "path" and now we want to add
+                * "path/file", we need a way to remove "path" before
+                * being able to add "path/file".  However,
+                * "git-update-cache --remove path" would not work.
+                * --force-remove can be used but this is more user
+                * friendly, especially since we can do the opposite
+                * case just fine without --force-remove.
+                */
+               if (status == 0 || (errno == ENOENT || errno == ENOTDIR)) {
                        if (allow_remove)
                                return remove_file_from_cache(path);
                }