add -p: improve error messages

diff --git a/merge-recursive.c b/merge-recursive.c
index 780f81a8bd3a729502cf2211a63135e4fba5d6cf..cc5fa0a94965fad8821cdf81dfe84737f4dee043 100644 (file)
--- a/merge-recursive.c
+++ b/merge-recursive.c
@@ -1026,10 +1026,19 @@ static int merge_file_1(struct merge_options *o,
                                                       &b->oid,
                                                       !o->call_depth);
                } else if (S_ISLNK(a->mode)) {
-                       oidcpy(&result->oid, &a->oid);
-
-                       if (!oid_eq(&a->oid, &b->oid))
-                               result->clean = 0;
+                       switch (o->recursive_variant) {
+                       case MERGE_RECURSIVE_NORMAL:
+                               oidcpy(&result->oid, &a->oid);
+                               if (!oid_eq(&a->oid, &b->oid))
+                                       result->clean = 0;
+                               break;
+                       case MERGE_RECURSIVE_OURS:
+                               oidcpy(&result->oid, &a->oid);
+                               break;
+                       case MERGE_RECURSIVE_THEIRS:
+                               oidcpy(&result->oid, &b->oid);
+                               break;
+                       }
                } else
                        die("BUG: unsupported object type in the tree");
        }
@@ -1954,7 +1963,7 @@ int merge_trees(struct merge_options *o,
        if (oid_eq(&common->object.oid, &merge->object.oid)) {
                struct strbuf sb = STRBUF_INIT;
 
-               if (index_has_changes(&sb)) {
+               if (!o->call_depth && index_has_changes(&sb)) {
                        err(o, _("Dirty index: cannot merge (dirty: %s)"),
                            sb.buf);
                        return 0;