From: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2007 11:31:40 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/6] Teach core object handling functions about gitlinks
Message-ID: <81b0412b0704100431i1e58c74tbe19ea490e470b8b@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20070410084022.GB2813@planck.djpig.de>

On 4/10/07, Frank Lichtenheld <frank@lichtenheld.de> wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 09, 2007 at 09:20:29PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > +     case S_IFDIR:
> > +             return resolve_gitlink_ref(path, "HEAD", sha1);
> >       default:
> >               return error("%s: unsupported file type", path);
> >       }
>
> Not that I have time right now to look up the exact context (only read
> the patch), but I would've expected a "case S_IFDIRLNK:" here?
>

No, the st_mode comes directly from file system. It knows nothing about
dirlinks.