Re: MinGW port updated to GIT 1.5.0

From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Feb 15, 2007, 17:43 UTC
Message-ID: <7vire3co5s.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <45D44FD5.72299A3A@eudaptics.com>

Johannes Sixt <J.Sixt@eudaptics.com> writes:

> .... The general idea is to extend the meaning of
> `core.filemode = false` to check out symbolic links as plain files. Any
> hints about where the source code needs changes are welcome.

grep for "if (S_ISLNK(mode))", see if it talks about the mode we put (either in tree object or index) and if so they are the places you want them to pretend that you got a regular file.

For example, builtin-apply.c::try_create_file() is one. This writes out "git apply" result (so "am" and "rebase" are affected with this). entry.c::write_entry() is another. This writes things out of the index and used by "checkout-index" and "read-tree -u".