From 9771adf8629540391735b199420fba2656d5305b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Alok Singhal <gandalf013@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2015 08:35:27 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] Fix handling of symlinks in write_archive().

---
 pygit2/repository.py | 6 ++++--
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/pygit2/repository.py b/pygit2/repository.py
index 3dd14f1..a3c5dc0 100644
--- a/pygit2/repository.py
+++ b/pygit2/repository.py
@@ -623,5 +623,7 @@ class Repository(_Repository):
                 info.type = archive.SYMTYPE
                 info.linkname = content
                 info.mode = 0o777 # symlinks get placeholder
-
-            archive.addfile(info, StringIO(content))
+                info.size = 0
+                archive.addfile(info)
+            else:
+                archive.addfile(info, StringIO(content))