From: Shawn O. Pearce Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2010 22:29:50 GMT Subject: Re: Tree with leading '0' modes in 1.7.0.3 Message-ID: <20100326222950.GB10910@spearce.org> In-Reply-To: <20100326222659.GA18369@progeny.tock> Jonathan Nieder wrote: > 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.