[dnanian]

Well, we do detect whether a symlink is going to replace a file with a symlink pointing to the same file, but we don't do this for aliases (which aren't directory entries, but rather real files, with contents). While it's unfortunate this happened to you, we certainly never indicated that we'd handle aliases in some magical fashion... they are, in the end, just files and we do indicate that files are going to be overwritten.

That said, I'll log the case you hit and we'll see if improvements might be able to be made at some point in the future.