Re: new file mode 160000

From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
Date: Mar 10, 2020, 19:10 UTC
Message-ID: <87lfo8m3fu.fsf@igel.home>
In-Reply-To: <20200310184111.GD1443@cork>

On Mär 10 2020, Jörn Engel wrote:

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> Something weird happened to us and I have no idea how to reproduce it.
> A developer managed to create a git commit with the following content:
>
> diff --git a/foo b/foo
> new file mode 160000
> index 000000000000..b7e7816c1266
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/foo
> @@ -0,0 +1 @@
> +one line of content
>
> File name and content obfuscated, the rest is verbatim from the git
> commit.
>
> Now, file mode 160000 doesn't make sense to me.

0160000 is S_IFLNK in MiNT <https://github.com/freemint/freemint/blob/master/sys/mint/stat.h>.

Andreas.

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