Re: change of git-diff-tree and symlinks

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> On Wed, 25 May 2005, Kay Sievers wrote:
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> > I'm catching up with gitweb.cgi to parse the changed output. Works fine
> > so far and is really much easier to parse. Here is something that does
> > not work anymore. See the difference between:
> > 
> >    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/hotplug/udev.git;a=commit;h=49cedafaf893bfe348eb7598227f1a11ae24bfd6
> >    http://ehlo.org/~kay/gitweb.cgi?p=linux/hotplug/udev.git;a=commit;h=49cedafaf893bfe348eb7598227f1a11ae24bfd6
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> Yes, the new diff-tree thing doesn't show symlinks.
> 
> The problem seems to be that we just don't have a "status" flag for it. I 
> think we should call it "T" for "Type change" or something, but in the 
> meantime let's just have the rule that instead of ignoring unknown state 
> changes, we always print them out as "?" instead.
> 
> Ie something like this..
> 
> (And I'd suggest you make gitweb flexible enough that it does something 
> sane if it sees an unknown reason code - let's see what Junio thinks about 
> what status code we should use for this).