On Fri, Mar 8, 2019 at 12:38 AM Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> An unrelated tangent, but what do you think of this patch? In the
> context of testing "git rm", if foo is a dangling symbolic link,
> "git rm foo && test_path_is_missing foo" would need something like
> this to work correctly, I would think.
>
> test_path_is_missing () {
> - if test -e "$1"
> + if test -e "$1" || test -L "$1"
> then
> echo "Path exists:"
> ls -ld "$1"
Makes sense. Won't we also want:
test_path_exists () {
- if ! test -e "$1"
+ if ! test -e "$1" && ! test -L "$1"
then
echo "Path $1 doesn't exist. $2"
or something like that?
