diff: allow turning on textconv explicitly for plumbing

diff --git a/merge-recursive.c b/merge-recursive.c
index 7472d3ecc9b8412a697a64c1307259a104e0abf9..a0c804c8171d021780680f11901680d4c7e89e0b 100644 (file)
--- a/merge-recursive.c
+++ b/merge-recursive.c
@@ -16,7 +16,6 @@
 #include "string-list.h"
 #include "xdiff-interface.h"
 #include "ll-merge.h"
-#include "interpolate.h"
 #include "attr.h"
 #include "merge-recursive.h"
 #include "dir.h"
@@ -526,7 +525,8 @@ static void update_file_flags(struct merge_options *o,
                        char *lnk = xmemdupz(buf, size);
                        safe_create_leading_directories_const(path);
                        unlink(path);
-                       symlink(lnk, path);
+                       if (symlink(lnk, path))
+                               die("failed to symlink %s: %s", path, strerror(errno));
                        free(lnk);
                } else
                        die("do not know what to do with %06o %s '%s'",