From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2008 15:50:13 GMT
Subject: Re: [BUG?]: unpack-file behavior for blobs corresponding to symlinks
Message-ID: <7v4p4cuocq.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <51419b2c0809190755l2aa01558l30e07c4141f8d4e0@mail.gmail.com>

"Elijah Newren" <newren@gmail.com> writes:

> 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,...

        git checkout -- that-path      ;# from the index
        git checkout commit that-path  ;# from the commit/tree