Merge branch 'da/difftool' into maint

The code to prepare the working tree side of temporary directory
for the "dir-diff" feature forgot that symbolic links need not be
copied (or symlinked) to the temporary area, as the code already
special cases and overwrites them.  Besides, it was wrong to try
computing the object name of the target of symbolic link, which may
not even exist or may be a directory.

* da/difftool:
  difftool: ignore symbolic links in use_wt_file

2 files changed, 20 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/git-difftool.perl b/git-difftool.perl
index 7df7c8a9a7..488d14b153 100755
--- a/git-difftool.perl
+++ b/git-difftool.perl
@@ -70,9 +70,7 @@ sub use_wt_file
 	my ($repo, $workdir, $file, $sha1) = @_;
 	my $null_sha1 = '0' x 40;
 
-	if (! -e "$workdir/$file") {
-		# If the file doesn't exist in the working tree, we cannot
-		# use it.
+	if (-l "$workdir/$file" || ! -e _) {
 		return (0, $null_sha1);
 	}
 
diff --git a/t/t7800-difftool.sh b/t/t7800-difftool.sh
index ea35a0241c..a771cf77f5 100755
--- a/t/t7800-difftool.sh
+++ b/t/t7800-difftool.sh
@@ -504,4 +504,23 @@ test_expect_success PERL 'difftool properly honors gitlink and core.worktree' '
 	)
 '
 
+test_expect_success PERL,SYMLINKS 'difftool --dir-diff symlinked directories' '
+	git init dirlinks &&
+	(
+		cd dirlinks &&
+		git config diff.tool checktrees &&
+		git config difftool.checktrees.cmd "echo good" &&
+		mkdir foo &&
+		: >foo/bar &&
+		git add foo/bar &&
+		test_commit symlink-one &&
+		ln -s foo link &&
+		git add link &&
+		test_commit symlink-two &&
+		echo good >expect &&
+		git difftool --tool=checktrees --dir-diff HEAD~ >actual &&
+		test_cmp expect actual
+	)
+'
+
 test_done