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diff --git a/builtin-merge-recursive.c b/builtin-merge-recursive.c
index 362c290028d68ebc2e589d424bc42cd5e8630a4e..43bf6aa45eeacbb67490c809070f40023ce4e434 100644 (file)
--- a/builtin-merge-recursive.c
+++ b/builtin-merge-recursive.c
@@ -481,15 +481,6 @@ static char *unique_path(const char *path, const char *branch)
        return newpath;
 }
 
-static int mkdir_p(const char *path, unsigned long mode)
-{
-       /* path points to cache entries, so xstrdup before messing with it */
-       char *buf = xstrdup(path);
-       int result = safe_create_leading_directories(buf);
-       free(buf);
-       return result;
-}
-
 static void flush_buffer(int fd, const char *buf, unsigned long size)
 {
        while (size > 0) {
@@ -512,7 +503,7 @@ static int make_room_for_path(const char *path)
        int status;
        const char *msg = "failed to create path '%s'%s";
 
-       status = mkdir_p(path, 0777);
+       status = safe_create_leading_directories_const(path);
        if (status) {
                if (status == -3) {
                        /* something else exists */
@@ -555,9 +546,19 @@ static void update_file_flags(const unsigned char *sha,
                        die("cannot read object %s '%s'", sha1_to_hex(sha), path);
                if (type != OBJ_BLOB)
                        die("blob expected for %s '%s'", sha1_to_hex(sha), path);
+               if (S_ISREG(mode)) {
+                       struct strbuf strbuf;
+                       strbuf_init(&strbuf, 0);
+                       if (convert_to_working_tree(path, buf, size, &strbuf)) {
+                               free(buf);
+                               size = strbuf.len;
+                               buf = strbuf_detach(&strbuf, NULL);
+                       }
+               }
 
                if (make_room_for_path(path) < 0) {
                        update_wd = 0;
+                       free(buf);
                        goto update_index;
                }
                if (S_ISREG(mode) || (!has_symlinks && S_ISLNK(mode))) {
@@ -573,13 +574,14 @@ static void update_file_flags(const unsigned char *sha,
                        close(fd);
                } else if (S_ISLNK(mode)) {
                        char *lnk = xmemdupz(buf, size);
-                       mkdir_p(path, 0777);
+                       safe_create_leading_directories_const(path);
                        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);
+               free(buf);
        }
  update_index:
        if (update_cache)