From: Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org>
Date: Tue, 20 May 2008 18:15:14 +0000 (-0400)
Subject: clone: fall back to copying if hardlinking fails
X-Git-Tag: v1.5.6-rc0~5^2~3
X-Git-Url: https://git.lorimer.id.au/gitweb.git/diff_plain/fdabc242f465771116e08d1ea3737fdb7453b2f1?ds=sidebyside

clone: fall back to copying if hardlinking fails

Note that it stops trying hardlinks if any fail.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
---

diff --git a/builtin-clone.c b/builtin-clone.c
index 8936a51810..2a3f6732f2 100644
--- a/builtin-clone.c
+++ b/builtin-clone.c
@@ -207,13 +207,15 @@ static void copy_or_link_directory(char *src, char *dest)
 
 		if (unlink(dest) && errno != ENOENT)
 			die("failed to unlink %s\n", dest);
-		if (option_no_hardlinks) {
-			if (copy_file(dest, src, 0666))
-				die("failed to copy file to %s\n", dest);
-		} else {
-			if (link(src, dest))
+		if (!option_no_hardlinks) {
+			if (!link(src, dest))
+				continue;
+			if (option_local)
 				die("failed to create link %s\n", dest);
+			option_no_hardlinks = 1;
 		}
+		if (copy_file(dest, src, 0666))
+			die("failed to copy file to %s\n", dest);
 	}
 	closedir(dir);
 }