From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2006 10:25:53 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC] Submodules in GIT
Message-ID: <7vac1oi1ce.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <em0fpq$45b$1@sea.gmane.org>

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Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> writes:

>>>> Now it doesn't looks like trees/blobs anymore so maybe a link object
>>>> is handy:
>>>>  README
>>>> 100644 blob <sha1 of blob>    REPORTING-BUGS
>>>> 100644 link <sha1 of link>      AUTHORS
>>>> 040000 tree <sha1 of tree>    arch
>>>> 040000 tree <sha1 of tree>    block
>>>> 040000 link <sha1 of link>     misc
>
> This would be (using the submodule original proposal)
>
>     140000 link <sha1 of link>     misc

If I recall correctly, the original original proposal used
160000 because that is not a bitpattern used in stat.h, and a
link behaves like a directory and a symbolic link at the same
time.