Re: Tree with leading '0' modes in 1.7.0.3

From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date: Mar 26, 2010, 22:40 UTC
Message-ID: <20100326224038.GA18454@progeny.tock>
In-Reply-To: <20100326222950.GB10910@spearce.org>

Shawn O. Pearce wrote:

> Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Shawn O. Pearce wrote:

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>>> 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.

Yes, true. The problem is probably elsewhere, especially because 1.7.0.3 doesn’t even have that commit. Still, I find this a bit strange because such breakage should have been noticeable if it happens often.

What has changed recently that involves writing trees?

Jonathan