- memcpy(target, new, size);
- target[size] = '\0';
- if (symlink(target, path)) {
+ if (to_tempfile) {
+ strcpy(path, ".merge_link_XXXXXX");
+ fd = mkstemp(path);
+ if (fd < 0) {
+ free(new);
+ return error("git-checkout-index: unable to create "
+ "file %s (%s)", path, strerror(errno));
+ }
+ wrote = write(fd, new, size);
+ close(fd);