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Diffstat (limited to 'refs/files-backend.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | refs/files-backend.c | 7 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/refs/files-backend.c b/refs/files-backend.c index 12290d2496..087a8fa024 100644 --- a/refs/files-backend.c +++ b/refs/files-backend.c @@ -1496,6 +1496,11 @@ stat_ref: ret = 0; goto out; } + /* + * It doesn't look like a refname; fall through to just + * treating it like a non-symlink, and reading whatever it + * points to. + */ } /* Is it a directory? */ @@ -1519,7 +1524,7 @@ stat_ref: */ fd = open(path, O_RDONLY); if (fd < 0) { - if (errno == ENOENT) + if (errno == ENOENT && !S_ISLNK(st.st_mode)) /* inconsistent with lstat; retry */ goto stat_ref; else |