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Diffstat (limited to 'builtin')
| -rw-r--r-- | builtin/clone.c | 12 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/builtin/clone.c b/builtin/clone.c index 6dc89f1058..eeec8067ec 100644 --- a/builtin/clone.c +++ b/builtin/clone.c @@ -331,8 +331,18 @@ static void copy_or_link_directory(struct strbuf *src, struct strbuf *dest, iter = dir_iterator_begin(src->buf, DIR_ITERATOR_PEDANTIC); - if (!iter) + if (!iter) { + if (errno == ENOTDIR) { + int saved_errno = errno; + struct stat st; + + if (!lstat(src->buf, &st) && S_ISLNK(st.st_mode)) + die(_("'%s' is a symlink, refusing to clone with --local"), + src->buf); + errno = saved_errno; + } die_errno(_("failed to start iterator over '%s'"), src->buf); + } strbuf_addch(src, '/'); src_len = src->len; |