provide a facility for "delayed" progress reporting

diff --git a/cache-tree.c b/cache-tree.c
index 9b73c8669a0946c3bcbf1de777e9acd4cd34bcae..6369cc7c536ba7b82a6afcb191628beefe889b72 100644 (file)
--- a/cache-tree.c
+++ b/cache-tree.c
@@ -326,7 +326,7 @@ static int update_one(struct cache_tree *it,
                        mode = ntohl(ce->ce_mode);
                        entlen = pathlen - baselen;
                }
-               if (!missing_ok && !has_sha1_file(sha1))
+               if (mode != S_IFDIRLNK && !missing_ok && !has_sha1_file(sha1))
                        return error("invalid object %s", sha1_to_hex(sha1));
 
                if (!ce->ce_mode)