git-revert documentation: refer to new HOWTO on reverting faulty merges
[gitweb.git] / builtin-blame.c
index a0d60145f26d32e45f4d04c22164cbe8060739ca..aae14ef8bb63abc598e2e3ce99bf64d5c07e0067 100644 (file)
@@ -1996,7 +1996,6 @@ static struct commit *fake_working_tree_commit(const char *path, const char *con
        if (!contents_from || strcmp("-", contents_from)) {
                struct stat st;
                const char *read_from;
-               unsigned long fin_size;
 
                if (contents_from) {
                        if (stat(contents_from, &st) < 0)
@@ -2008,7 +2007,6 @@ static struct commit *fake_working_tree_commit(const char *path, const char *con
                                die("Cannot lstat %s", path);
                        read_from = path;
                }
-               fin_size = xsize_t(st.st_size);
                mode = canon_mode(st.st_mode);
                switch (st.st_mode & S_IFMT) {
                case S_IFREG:
@@ -2016,9 +2014,8 @@ static struct commit *fake_working_tree_commit(const char *path, const char *con
                                die("cannot open or read %s", read_from);
                        break;
                case S_IFLNK:
-                       if (readlink(read_from, buf.buf, buf.alloc) != fin_size)
+                       if (strbuf_readlink(&buf, read_from, st.st_size) < 0)
                                die("cannot readlink %s", read_from);
-                       buf.len = fin_size;
                        break;
                default:
                        die("unsupported file type %s", read_from);