builtin-merge: avoid run_command_v_opt() for recursive and subtree

diff --git a/builtin-update-index.c b/builtin-update-index.c
index 38eb53ccba2b97a0fccf50d6ba0b7424fe2d1bcb..434cb8e4a00565c53587d89dd259ae63bc133de7 100644 (file)
--- a/builtin-update-index.c
+++ b/builtin-update-index.c
@@ -194,6 +194,10 @@ static int process_path(const char *path)
        int len;
        struct stat st;
 
+       len = strlen(path);
+       if (has_symlink_leading_path(len, path))
+               return error("'%s' is beyond a symbolic link", path);
+
        /*
         * First things first: get the stat information, to decide
         * what to do about the pathname!
@@ -201,7 +205,6 @@ static int process_path(const char *path)
        if (lstat(path, &st) < 0)
                return process_lstat_error(path, errno);
 
-       len = strlen(path);
        if (S_ISDIR(st.st_mode))
                return process_directory(path, len, &st);