clone: fall back to copying if hardlinking fails

Note that it stops trying hardlinks if any fail.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

diff --git a/builtin-clone.c b/builtin-clone.c
index 8936a51810fb4d1886187bc00507edc0287198f4..2a3f6732f2a233c17a0086628ff3c31319bfe8ac 100644 (file)
--- a/builtin-clone.c
+++ b/builtin-clone.c
@@ -207,13 +207,15 @@ static void copy_or_link_directory(char *src, char *dest)
 
                if (unlink(dest) && errno != ENOENT)
                        die("failed to unlink %s\n", dest);
-               if (option_no_hardlinks) {
-                       if (copy_file(dest, src, 0666))
-                               die("failed to copy file to %s\n", dest);
-               } else {
-                       if (link(src, dest))
+               if (!option_no_hardlinks) {
+                       if (!link(src, dest))
+                               continue;
+                       if (option_local)
                                die("failed to create link %s\n", dest);
+                       option_no_hardlinks = 1;
                }
+               if (copy_file(dest, src, 0666))
+                       die("failed to copy file to %s\n", dest);
        }
        closedir(dir);
 }