Re: Tree with leading '0' modes in 1.7.0.3

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