Use the open(2) flag O_EXCL to ensure the file doesn't already exist
instead of (racily) calling stat(2) through file_exists().  While at it
switch to xopen() to reduce code duplication and get more consistent
error messages.

Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <l....@web.de>
---
 notes-merge.c | 6 +-----
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/notes-merge.c b/notes-merge.c
index b7814c9..2b29fc4 100644
--- a/notes-merge.c
+++ b/notes-merge.c
@@ -298,12 +298,8 @@ static void write_buf_to_worktree(const unsigned char *obj,
        char *path = git_pathdup(NOTES_MERGE_WORKTREE "/%s", sha1_to_hex(obj));
        if (safe_create_leading_directories_const(path))
                die_errno("unable to create directory for '%s'", path);
-       if (file_exists(path))
-               die("found existing file at '%s'", path);
 
-       fd = open(path, O_WRONLY | O_TRUNC | O_CREAT, 0666);
-       if (fd < 0)
-               die_errno("failed to open '%s'", path);
+       fd = xopen(path, O_WRONLY | O_EXCL | O_CREAT, 0666);
 
        while (size > 0) {
                long ret = write_in_full(fd, buf, size);
-- 
2.9.0

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