GIT 1.5.1.2

diff --git a/combine-diff.c b/combine-diff.c
index 9daa0cb9a95fe6c2176a927f093d8788d0195240..3a9b32f6b8882f3adb91e5833c205635657a98b7 100644 (file)
--- a/combine-diff.c
+++ b/combine-diff.c
@@ -684,7 +684,7 @@ static void show_patch_diff(struct combine_diff_path *elem, int num_parent,
                        goto deleted_file;
 
                if (S_ISLNK(st.st_mode)) {
-                       size_t len = st.st_size;
+                       size_t len = xsize_t(st.st_size);
                        result_size = len;
                        result = xmalloc(len + 1);
                        if (result_size != readlink(elem->path, result, len)) {
@@ -697,10 +697,20 @@ static void show_patch_diff(struct combine_diff_path *elem, int num_parent,
                }
                else if (0 <= (fd = open(elem->path, O_RDONLY)) &&
                         !fstat(fd, &st)) {
-                       size_t len = st.st_size;
+                       size_t len = xsize_t(st.st_size);
                        size_t sz = 0;
+                       int is_file, i;
 
                        elem->mode = canon_mode(st.st_mode);
+                       /* if symlinks don't work, assume symlink if all parents
+                        * are symlinks
+                        */
+                       is_file = has_symlinks;
+                       for (i = 0; !is_file && i < num_parent; i++)
+                               is_file = !S_ISLNK(elem->parent[i].mode);
+                       if (!is_file)
+                               elem->mode = canon_mode(S_IFLNK);
+
                        result_size = len;
                        result = xmalloc(len + 1);
                        while (sz < len) {