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Re: RFC: git cat-file --follow-symlinks?

From
Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date
Apr 30, 2015, 03:18 UTC
Message-ID
<20150430031841.GA12361@peff.net>
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On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 06:31:22PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
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> > would yield:
> >
> >  (1)   100644 8
> >        content
> >  (2)   040000 3
> >        foo
> >  (3)   040000 6
> >        ../foo
> [...]
> 
> s/040000/160000/ I would think (if you really meant to expose a
> tree, write it as 40000 instead, so that people will not get a wrong
> impression and reimplement a broken tree object encoding some popular
> Git hosting site broke their customer projects with ;-).

Whooops. Yes, definitely 160000. That's what I get for not double-checking. :)

-Peff
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