From f1bc2076a758ef1c1ce86a8cfa302a2b42f39dac Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Thomas Waldmann <tw@waldmann-edv.de>
Date: Sat, 1 Apr 2017 17:05:38 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] extract: remove duplicate code

anything at <path> gets nuked already a few lines above, if possible.
---
 borg/archive.py | 4 ----
 1 file changed, 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/borg/archive.py b/borg/archive.py
index d37a1ce01..178ad94b8 100644
--- a/borg/archive.py
+++ b/borg/archive.py
@@ -403,8 +403,6 @@ Number of files: {0.stats.nfiles}'''.format(
             if b'source' in item:
                 source = os.path.join(dest, item[b'source'])
                 with backup_io():
-                    if os.path.exists(path):
-                        os.unlink(path)
                     os.link(source, path)
             else:
                 with backup_io():
@@ -438,8 +436,6 @@ Number of files: {0.stats.nfiles}'''.format(
             elif stat.S_ISLNK(mode):
                 make_parent(path)
                 source = item[b'source']
-                if os.path.exists(path):
-                    os.unlink(path)
                 try:
                     os.symlink(source, path)
                 except UnicodeEncodeError: