Re: Tree with leading '0' modes in 1.7.0.3

From: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Date: Mar 26, 2010, 22:29 UTC
Message-ID: <20100326222950.GB10910@spearce.org>
In-Reply-To: <20100326222659.GA18369@progeny.tock>

Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> wrote:

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> Shawn O. Pearce wrote:
> 
> > Any ideas?  Why is Git 1.7.0.3 jamming a leading '0' on a file mode?
> 
> See http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/141028
> and commit c88f0cc (notes: fix malformed tree entry, 2010-02-24).
> 
> The regression that that fixes appeared in 61a7cca0 (Notes API:
> write_notes_tree(): Store the notes tree in the database, 2010-02-13),
> which is not part of 1.7.0.3.

That may be true... but I doubt the tree in question was a notes tree. The path entries were names like 'README', 'modules' and 'stewardbot'. Something I would assume was the project's source tree, not its notes tree. Unless someone abused the note tree editor to edit the README or something...

-- 
Shawn.