From: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2008 14:55:36 GMT
Subject: Re: [BUG?]: unpack-file behavior for blobs corresponding to symlinks
Message-ID: <51419b2c0809190755l2aa01558l30e07c4141f8d4e0@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <237967ef0809190751k38defaabk9efc74711f7c63c4@mail.gmail.com>

On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 8:51 AM, Mikael Magnusson <mikachu@gmail.com> wrote:
> This is not a bug. The type of a file is in the tree, not the blob, see:
>
> % echo -n foo > file
> % ln -s foo symlink
> % git add file symlink
> % git commit
> Created initial commit 31ad9b0 on master: file and symlink
>  2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>  create mode 100644 file
>  create mode 120000 symlink
> % git ls-tree HEAD
> 100644 blob 19102815663d23f8b75a47e7a01965dcdc96468c    file
> 120000 blob 19102815663d23f8b75a47e7a01965dcdc96468c    symlink

Good to know.  Given the mode (100644 or 120000) and the sha1sum, is
there a git command that will create-my-file for me, or do I need to
just use git unpack-file and add my own extra logic on top?

Thanks,
Elijah