lstat_cache(): print a warning if doing ping-pong between cache types

diff --git a/diff-no-index.c b/diff-no-index.c
index 60ed17470a6a2bf9bea202a04004b06d207a77d7..0dbd9dad8b100cdd4918571636ad3e9a1a0a2abf 100644 (file)
--- a/diff-no-index.c
+++ b/diff-no-index.c
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ static int get_mode(const char *path, int *mode)
                *mode = 0;
        else if (!strcmp(path, "-"))
                *mode = create_ce_mode(0666);
-       else if (stat(path, &st))
+       else if (lstat(path, &st))
                return error("Could not access '%s'", path);
        else
                *mode = st.st_mode;