From: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2011 21:10:31 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: resolve_ref(): explicitly fail if a symlink is not readable
X-Git-Tag: v1.7.8-rc0~107^2~12
X-Git-Url: https://git.lorimer.id.au/gitweb.git/diff_plain/7bb2bf8e5cc47f7731c9c012ecc943b14f99ee5a?hp=7bb2bf8e5cc47f7731c9c012ecc943b14f99ee5a

resolve_ref(): explicitly fail if a symlink is not readable

Previously the failure came later, after a few steps in which the
length was treated like the actual length of a string.  Even though
the old code gave the same answers, it was somewhat misleading.

Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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