From 418566b6fdcc0eb1b5549d0742366aa13a7ff277 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2009 17:30:51 +0100
Subject: Fix 'git diff --no-index' with a non-existing symlink target

When trying to find out mode changes, we should not access the symlink
targets using stat(); instead we use lstat() so that the diff does
not fail trying to find a non-existing symlink target.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

diff --git a/diff-no-index.c b/diff-no-index.c
index 60ed174..0dbd9da 100644
--- a/diff-no-index.c
+++ b/diff-no-index.c
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ static int get_mode(const char *path, int *mode)
 		*mode = 0;
 	else if (!strcmp(path, "-"))
 		*mode = create_ce_mode(0666);
-	else if (stat(path, &st))
+	else if (lstat(path, &st))
 		return error("Could not access '%s'", path);
 	else
 		*mode = st.st_mode;
diff --git a/t/t4011-diff-symlink.sh b/t/t4011-diff-symlink.sh
index 02efeca..9055c8b 100755
--- a/t/t4011-diff-symlink.sh
+++ b/t/t4011-diff-symlink.sh
@@ -82,4 +82,11 @@ test_expect_success \
     git diff-index -M -p $tree > current &&
     compare_diff_patch current expected'
 
+test_expect_success \
+    'diff symlinks with non-existing targets' \
+    'ln -s narf pinky &&
+    ln -s take\ over brain &&
+    test_must_fail git diff --no-index pinky brain > output 2> output.err &&
+    grep narf output &&
+    ! grep error output.err'
 test_done
-- 
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