rebase: Support preserving merges in non-interactive mode

diff --git a/builtin-update-index.c b/builtin-update-index.c
index 5637d417aac668a61af3c50d8b1acd2b31f5af8a..417f9724abdce3c49df316505eff1019126a5058 100644 (file)
--- a/builtin-update-index.c
+++ b/builtin-update-index.c
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@
  * Default to not allowing changes to the list of files. The
  * tool doesn't actually care, but this makes it harder to add
  * files to the revision control by mistake by doing something
- * like "git-update-index *" and suddenly having all the object
+ * like "git update-index *" and suddenly having all the object
  * files be revision controlled.
  */
 static int allow_add;
@@ -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);
 
@@ -310,18 +313,18 @@ static void read_index_info(int line_termination)
                /* This reads lines formatted in one of three formats:
                 *
                 * (1) mode         SP sha1          TAB path
-                * The first format is what "git-apply --index-info"
+                * The first format is what "git apply --index-info"
                 * reports, and used to reconstruct a partial tree
                 * that is used for phony merge base tree when falling
                 * back on 3-way merge.
                 *
                 * (2) mode SP type SP sha1          TAB path
-                * The second format is to stuff git-ls-tree output
+                * The second format is to stuff "git ls-tree" output
                 * into the index file.
                 *
                 * (3) mode         SP sha1 SP stage TAB path
                 * This format is to put higher order stages into the
-                * index file and matches git-ls-files --stage output.
+                * index file and matches "git ls-files --stage" output.
                 */
                errno = 0;
                ul = strtoul(buf.buf, &ptr, 8);