symbolic-ref: propagate error code from create_symref()

diff --git a/builtin/rm.c b/builtin/rm.c
index 3304bff42a2fb91f66b9bbca1117746eaa22352a..80b972f92fde3201bdf1cb8bd74c2b4ff53fa5ae 100644 (file)
--- a/builtin/rm.c
+++ b/builtin/rm.c
@@ -84,7 +84,6 @@ static int check_submodules_use_gitfiles(void)
                const char *name = list.entry[i].name;
                int pos;
                const struct cache_entry *ce;
-               struct stat st;
 
                pos = cache_name_pos(name, strlen(name));
                if (pos < 0) {
@@ -95,7 +94,7 @@ static int check_submodules_use_gitfiles(void)
                ce = active_cache[pos];
 
                if (!S_ISGITLINK(ce->ce_mode) ||
-                   (lstat(ce->name, &st) < 0) ||
+                   !file_exists(ce->name) ||
                    is_empty_dir(name))
                        continue;