Re: [PATCH] range-diff: allow to diff files regardless submodule

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> On Wed, Oct 10 2018, Lucas De Marchi wrote:
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> > Do like it's done in grep so mode doesn't end up as
> > 0160000, which means range-diff doesn't work if one has
> > "submodule.diff = log" in the configuration. Without this
> > while using range-diff I only get a
> >
> >     Submodule a 0000000...0000000 (new submodule)
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> I'm not familiar enough with this to tell what the real problem is
> that's being solved from the commit message, but if it means that now
> range-diff works in some configuration, presumably that can be reduced
> to a simple set of commands that didn't work before but now does, and
> therefore a test in t/t3206-range-diff.sh.

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> > instead of the diff between the revisions.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Lucas De Marchi <lucas.demarchi@intel.com>
> > ---
> >  range-diff.c | 2 +-
> >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/range-diff.c b/range-diff.c
> > index 60edb2f518..bd8083f2d1 100644
> > --- a/range-diff.c
> > +++ b/range-diff.c
> > @@ -354,7 +354,7 @@ static struct diff_filespec *get_filespec(const char *name, const char *p)
> >  {
> >       struct diff_filespec *spec = alloc_filespec(name);
> >
> > -     fill_filespec(spec, &null_oid, 0, 0644);
> > +     fill_filespec(spec, &null_oid, 0, 0100644);
> >       spec->data = (char *)p;
> >       spec->size = strlen(p);
> >       spec->should_munmap = 0;