From e0226add28e53a35ce91cdbebb1919519f02b291 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@ppc970.osdl.org>
Date: Wed, 8 Jun 2005 17:36:47 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Fix up git-merge-one-file-script

Junio points out that we may need to create the path leading
up the the file we merge.

And we need to be more careful with the "exec"s we've done
to exit on success - only do the on the last command in the
pipeline, not the first one ;)
---
 git-merge-one-file-script | 25 ++++++++++++++++++-------
 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/git-merge-one-file-script b/git-merge-one-file-script
index f0353c14b..004c2bd44 100755
--- a/git-merge-one-file-script
+++ b/git-merge-one-file-script
@@ -16,6 +16,14 @@
 # been handled already by git-read-tree, but that one doesn't
 # do any merges that might change the tree layout.
 
+verify_path() {
+    file="$1"
+    dir=`dirname "$file"` &&
+    mkdir -p "$dir" &&
+    rm -f -- "$file" &&
+    : >"$file"
+}
+
 case "${1:-.}${2:-.}${3:-.}" in
 #
 # Deleted in both.
@@ -32,8 +40,8 @@ case "${1:-.}${2:-.}${3:-.}" in
 #
 "$1.$1" | "$1$1.")
 	echo "Removing $4"
-	exec rm -f -- "$4" &&
-		git-update-cache --remove -- "$4"
+	rm -f -- "$4" &&
+		exec git-update-cache --remove -- "$4"
 	;;
 
 #
@@ -42,9 +50,10 @@ case "${1:-.}${2:-.}${3:-.}" in
 ".$2." | "..$3" )
 	case "$6$7" in *7??) mode=+x;; *) mode=-x;; esac
 	echo "Adding $4 with perm $mode."
-	exec git-cat-file blob "$2$3" >"$4" &&
+	verify_path "$4" &&
+		git-cat-file blob "$2$3" >"$4" &&
 		chmod $mode -- "$4" &&
-		git-update-cache --add -- "$4"
+		exec git-update-cache --add -- "$4"
 	;;
 
 #
@@ -58,9 +67,10 @@ case "${1:-.}${2:-.}${3:-.}" in
 	fi
 	case "$6" in *7??) mode=+x;; *) mode=-x;; esac
 	echo "Adding $4 with perm $mode"
-	exec git-cat-file blob "$2" >"$4" &&
+	verify_path "$4" &&
+		git-cat-file blob "$2" >"$4" &&
 		chmod $mode -- "$4" &&
-		git-update-cache --add -- "$4"
+		exec git-update-cache --add -- "$4"
 	;;
 
 #
@@ -72,7 +82,8 @@ case "${1:-.}${2:-.}${3:-.}" in
 	src1=`git-unpack-file $2`
 	src2=`git-unpack-file $3`
 
-	merge -p "$src1" "$orig" "$src2" > "$4"
+	verify_path "$4" &&
+		merge -p "$src1" "$orig" "$src2" > "$4"
 	ret=$?
 	rm -f -- "$orig" "$src1" "$src2"
 
-- 
2.30.2