Re: Cherry-pick particular object

From: Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
Date: Mar 28, 2006, 23:28 UTC
Message-ID: <20060328232851.GE27689@pasky.or.cz>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0603281512260.15714@g5.osdl.org>

Dear diary, on Wed, Mar 29, 2006 at 01:24:13AM CEST, I got a letter where Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> said that...

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> On Wed, 29 Mar 2006, Petr Baudis wrote:
> 
> > Dear diary, on Wed, Mar 29, 2006 at 12:44:02AM CEST, I got a letter
> > where Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> said that...
> > > Ie you can have a tree like this:
> > > 
> > > 	100644 blob f2ba8f84ab5c1bce84a7b441cb1959cfc7093b7f    abc
> > > 	120000 blob f2ba8f84ab5c1bce84a7b441cb1959cfc7093b7f    file
> > > 
> > > where the first one is a regular file called "abc" (which contains the 
> > > string "abc"), and the second is the _symlink_ that points to "abc".
> > > 
> > > They share the exact same blob, and what distinguishes them is the 
> > > filemode info from git-read-tree.
> > 
> > Huh? Didn't you rather want to say that "file" will point to a blob
> > containing just the "abc" string (the symlink target)? ;-)
> 
> Well no, maybe I should have called the first file something else.
> 
> Both "abc" and "file" from a git perspective have the same _contents_ (the 
> blob containing the data 'abc').

Oh, I've totally missed the '(which contains the string "abc")' part, sorry. Apparently it's time to sleep for me. :/

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