From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2007 08:34:16 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/4] add a test case for git-merge-one-file
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0701250932360.22628@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>
In-Reply-To: <7vy7nsc6f0.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

Hi,

On Wed, 24 Jan 2007, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:
> 
> > +git-update-index --index-info << EOF
> > +10644 $hash_one 1	one
> > +10644 $hash_two 2	one
> > +10644 $hash_three 3	one
> > +EOF
> 
> How can this work with 10644 instead of 100644?  Did you spot a
> bug in update-index --index-info?

Actually, since !S_ISLNK(010644), it uses ce_permissions(010644), which 
basically only checks if (010644 & 0100) is set (i.e. if it is executable 
by the user), and depending on this returns 0755 or 0644.

That's why it works.

Ciao,
Dscho