Comment 5 for bug 192859

So I think there's two bugs (or two failure cases):

- if the symlink is previously added, and then we try to add a child, we get an attributeerror because there's a symlink inventory entry but it does not support children
- if the symlink is not already added, then the "implicitly add parents" rule will add the symlink implicitly as a directory, even though it actually is not