doc: clarify how -S works
[gitweb.git] / entry.c
diff --git a/entry.c b/entry.c
index aa2ee46a84033585d8e07a585610c5a697af82c2..05aa58d34823258789ec9e32abc897b8e6777412 100644 (file)
--- a/entry.c
+++ b/entry.c
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 #include "cache.h"
 #include "blob.h"
+#include "dir.h"
 
 static void create_directories(const char *path, const struct checkout *state)
 {
@@ -8,35 +9,25 @@ static void create_directories(const char *path, const struct checkout *state)
        const char *slash = path;
 
        while ((slash = strchr(slash+1, '/')) != NULL) {
-               struct stat st;
-               int stat_status;
-
                len = slash - path;
                memcpy(buf, path, len);
                buf[len] = 0;
 
-               if (len <= state->base_dir_len)
-                       /*
-                        * checkout-index --prefix=<dir>; <dir> is
-                        * allowed to be a symlink to an existing
-                        * directory.
-                        */
-                       stat_status = stat(buf, &st);
-               else
-                       /*
-                        * if there currently is a symlink, we would
-                        * want to replace it with a real directory.
-                        */
-                       stat_status = lstat(buf, &st);
-
-               if (!stat_status && S_ISDIR(st.st_mode))
+               /*
+                * For 'checkout-index --prefix=<dir>', <dir> is
+                * allowed to be a symlink to an existing directory,
+                * and we set 'state->base_dir_len' below, such that
+                * we test the path components of the prefix with the
+                * stat() function instead of the lstat() function.
+                */
+               if (has_dirs_only_path(len, buf, state->base_dir_len))
                        continue; /* ok, it is already a directory. */
 
                /*
-                * We know stat_status == 0 means something exists
-                * there and this mkdir would fail, but that is an
-                * error codepath; we do not care, as we unlink and
-                * mkdir again in such a case.
+                * If this mkdir() would fail, it could be that there
+                * is already a symlink or something else exists
+                * there, therefore we then try to unlink it and try
+                * one more time to create the directory.
                 */
                if (mkdir(buf, 0777)) {
                        if (errno == EEXIST && state->force &&
@@ -62,9 +53,7 @@ static void remove_subtree(const char *path)
        *name++ = '/';
        while ((de = readdir(dir)) != NULL) {
                struct stat st;
-               if ((de->d_name[0] == '.') &&
-                   ((de->d_name[1] == 0) ||
-                    ((de->d_name[1] == '.') && de->d_name[2] == 0)))
+               if (is_dot_or_dotdot(de->d_name))
                        continue;
                strcpy(name, de->d_name);
                if (lstat(pathbuf, &st))