From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2006 01:49:33 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC] Submodules in GIT
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0612151747470.3849@woody.osdl.org>
In-Reply-To: <e7bda7770612151713k418434e6gd8d565e49a766477@mail.gmail.com>



On Sat, 16 Dec 2006, Torgil Svensson wrote:
> 
> 100644 blob <sha1 of blob>    README
> 100644 blob <sha1 of blob>    REPORTING-BUGS
> 100644 link <sha1 of blob>     <sha1 of commit>
> 040000 tree <sha1 of tree>    arch
> 040000 tree <sha1 of tree>    block
> 040000 link <sha1 of tree>     <sha1 of commit>

That 040000 needs to be something else.

In order for something like a git-fsck-objects to know that it's a link, 
it needs to be marked as such. 

In git, we never just randomly open an object by SHA1, and then figure out 
its type. We always open things by explicitly knowing both the type and 
the SHA1, and if the object we find has the wrong type, that's a 
consistency error in the database (or the user).