Report symlink failures in merge-recursive
Signed-off-by: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
diff --git a/merge-recursive.c b/merge-recursive.c
index 0e988f2..a0c804c 100644
--- a/merge-recursive.c
+++ b/merge-recursive.c
@@ -525,7 +525,8 @@
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'",
