Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@xxxxxx> writes: > It is obvious that we do not have to create directories when the file we > want to check out already existed. It is not so obvious to me. In fact I vaguely recall we had complaint about opposite case where we did not honor a symlink to be checked out as a symlink because an earlier branch had it as a directory. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html