Hello!
Looks like a bug. `git stash` fails with fatal error, when whole
subdirectory is replaced with a symlink.
I'm using latest Git/1.8.5.4 under Ubuntu 12.04.4 x64.
Steps to reproduce initial state:
$ git init
$ mkdir dir
$ touch dir/file.txt
$ git add dir/file.txt
$ git commit -m 'Initial commit'
$ rm -r dir
$ ln -s -T /something/does/not/matter dir
$ git status
# Changes not staged for commit:
#
# deleted: dir/file.txt
#
# Untracked files:
#
# dir
Now the bug itself:
$ git stash
error: 'dir/file.txt' is beyond a symbolic link
fatal: Unable to process path dir/file.txt
Cannot save the current worktree state
Target of the symlink doesn't matter, as far as I understand.
Doing `git add --all` or `git rm --cached dir/file.txt` doesn't change the
result - still fatal.
Git tries to delete file "dir/file.txt", which does not exist. It confused
by existing "dir".
However `git checkout .` works fine: symlink deleted, directory restored.
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Vovan-VE
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