git-revert: Revert revert message to old behaviour

diff --git a/merge-recursive.c b/merge-recursive.c
index 87cd8709bbc99db559f3892c048ec111673a2566..c96e1a734cb0c258cd4adb4f00e247abdf804640 100644 (file)
--- a/merge-recursive.c
+++ b/merge-recursive.c
@@ -570,7 +570,7 @@ static void update_file_flags(const unsigned char *sha,
                if (type != OBJ_BLOB)
                        die("blob expected for %s '%s'", sha1_to_hex(sha), path);
 
-               if (S_ISREG(mode)) {
+               if (S_ISREG(mode) || (!has_symlinks && S_ISLNK(mode))) {
                        int fd;
                        if (mkdir_p(path, 0777))
                                die("failed to create path %s: %s", path, strerror(errno));
@@ -591,6 +591,7 @@ static void update_file_flags(const unsigned char *sha,
                        mkdir_p(path, 0777);
                        unlink(path);
                        symlink(lnk, path);
+                       free(lnk);
                } else
                        die("do not know what to do with %06o %s '%s'",
                            mode, sha1_to_hex(sha), path);