From 097af11a6dce8b3e8b87058058cad5880a14e880 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Roman Telezhynskyi <kroluku@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2017 17:03:42 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Improvement. Fix broken symlink automatically.

--HG--
branch : develop
---
 src/libs/vmisc/vcommonsettings.cpp | 18 +++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/libs/vmisc/vcommonsettings.cpp b/src/libs/vmisc/vcommonsettings.cpp
index 84f28267c..b43ed2650 100644
--- a/src/libs/vmisc/vcommonsettings.cpp
+++ b/src/libs/vmisc/vcommonsettings.cpp
@@ -150,7 +150,8 @@ void SymlinkCopyDirRecursive(const QString &fromDir, const QString &toDir, bool
         to = to + QLatin1String(".lnk");
 #endif
 
-        if (QFile::exists(to))
+        QFileInfo fileTo(to);
+        if (not fileTo.isSymLink() && fileTo.exists())
         {
             if (replaceOnConflit)
             {
@@ -161,6 +162,21 @@ void SymlinkCopyDirRecursive(const QString &fromDir, const QString &toDir, bool
                 continue;
             }
         }
+        else if (fileTo.isSymLink())
+        {
+            if (not fileTo.exists())
+            { // automatically fix broken symlink
+                QFile::remove(to);
+            }
+            else if (replaceOnConflit)
+            {
+                QFile::remove(to);
+            }
+            else
+            {
+                continue;
+            }
+        }
 
         QFile::link(from, to);
     }