merge-recursive: handle addition of submodule on our side of history

The code for a newly added path assumed that the path was a normal file,
and thus checked for there being a directory still being in the way of
the file.  Note that since unpack_trees() does path-in-the-way checks
already, the only way for there to be a directory in the way at this
point in the code, is if there is some kind of D/F conflict in the merge.

For a submodule addition on HEAD's side of history, the submodule would
have already been present.  This means that we do expect there to be a
directory present but should not consider it to be "in the way"; instead,
it's the expected submodule.  So, when there's a submodule addition from
HEAD's side, don't bother checking the working copy for a directory in
the way.

Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <[email protected]>

Author: newren

merge-recursive.c

@@ -1901,8 +1901,9 @@ static int process_entry(struct merge_options *o,
 			oid = b_oid;
 			conf = _("directory/file");
 		}
-		if (dir_in_way(path, !o->call_depth,
-			       S_ISGITLINK(a_mode))) {
+		if (dir_in_way(path,
+			       !o->call_depth && !S_ISGITLINK(a_mode),
+			       0)) {
 			char *new_path = unique_path(o, path, add_branch);
 			clean_merge = 0;
 			output(o, 1, _("CONFLICT (%s): There is a directory with name %s in %s. "

t/t3512-cherry-pick-submodule.sh

@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ KNOWN_FAILURE_NOFF_MERGE_DOESNT_CREATE_EMPTY_SUBMODULE_DIR=1
 KNOWN_FAILURE_NOFF_MERGE_ATTEMPTS_TO_MERGE_REMOVED_SUBMODULE_FILES=1
 test_submodule_switch "git cherry-pick"
 
-test_expect_failure 'unrelated submodule/file conflict is ignored' '
+test_expect_success 'unrelated submodule/file conflict is ignored' '
 	test_create_repo sub &&
 
 	touch sub/file &&