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

>
> On Wed, Oct 10, 2018 at 08:09:16AM -0700, Lucas De Marchi wrote:
> > 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)
> >
> > 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);
>
> If we have a system that has different mode values from the common Unix
> ones, is this still correct or does it need to change?