From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2007 17:43:11 GMT
Subject: Re: MinGW port updated to GIT 1.5.0
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".