add basic branch display tests

diff --git a/entry.c b/entry.c
index 5f24816eb9fe9fa934889336f2dbcdc7bf006635..05aa58d34823258789ec9e32abc897b8e6777412 100644 (file)
--- a/entry.c
+++ b/entry.c
@@ -9,35 +9,25 @@ static void create_directories(const char *path, const struct checkout *state)
        const char *slash = path;
 
        while ((slash = strchr(slash+1, '/')) != NULL) {
-               struct stat st;
-               int stat_status;
-
                len = slash - path;
                memcpy(buf, path, len);
                buf[len] = 0;
 
-               if (len <= state->base_dir_len)
-                       /*
-                        * checkout-index --prefix=<dir>; <dir> is
-                        * allowed to be a symlink to an existing
-                        * directory.
-                        */
-                       stat_status = stat(buf, &st);
-               else
-                       /*
-                        * if there currently is a symlink, we would
-                        * want to replace it with a real directory.
-                        */
-                       stat_status = lstat(buf, &st);
-
-               if (!stat_status && S_ISDIR(st.st_mode))
+               /*
+                * For 'checkout-index --prefix=<dir>', <dir> is
+                * allowed to be a symlink to an existing directory,
+                * and we set 'state->base_dir_len' below, such that
+                * we test the path components of the prefix with the
+                * stat() function instead of the lstat() function.
+                */
+               if (has_dirs_only_path(len, buf, state->base_dir_len))
                        continue; /* ok, it is already a directory. */
 
                /*
-                * We know stat_status == 0 means something exists
-                * there and this mkdir would fail, but that is an
-                * error codepath; we do not care, as we unlink and
-                * mkdir again in such a case.
+                * If this mkdir() would fail, it could be that there
+                * is already a symlink or something else exists
+                * there, therefore we then try to unlink it and try
+                * one more time to create the directory.
                 */
                if (mkdir(buf, 0777)) {
                        if (errno == EEXIST && state->force &&