Teach run-command to redirect stdout to /dev/null

diff --git a/entry.c b/entry.c
index 472a9ef32191f211347a98d4ab7d06a06de043ec..d72f811580ad10e792e38b40fe79bf4af3868846 100644 (file)
--- a/entry.c
+++ b/entry.c
@@ -68,10 +68,10 @@ static int write_entry(struct cache_entry *ce, char *path, struct checkout *stat
        void *new;
        unsigned long size;
        long wrote;
-       char type[20];
+       enum object_type type;
 
-       new = read_sha1_file(ce->sha1, type, &size);
-       if (!new || strcmp(type, blob_type)) {
+       new = read_sha1_file(ce->sha1, &type, &size);
+       if (!new || type != OBJ_BLOB) {
                if (new)
                        free(new);
                return error("git-checkout-index: unable to read sha1 file of %s (%s)",
@@ -111,9 +111,12 @@ static int write_entry(struct cache_entry *ce, char *path, struct checkout *stat
                        return error("git-checkout-index: unable to write file %s", path);
                break;
        case S_IFLNK:
-               if (to_tempfile) {
-                       strcpy(path, ".merge_link_XXXXXX");
-                       fd = mkstemp(path);
+               if (to_tempfile || !has_symlinks) {
+                       if (to_tempfile) {
+                               strcpy(path, ".merge_link_XXXXXX");
+                               fd = mkstemp(path);
+                       } else
+                               fd = create_file(path, 0666);
                        if (fd < 0) {
                                free(new);
                                return error("git-checkout-index: unable to create "