From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2020 19:47:20 GMT
Subject: Re: new file mode 160000
Message-ID: <xmqqo8t4hu0n.fsf@gitster.c.googlers.com>
In-Reply-To: <87lfo8m3fu.fsf@igel.home>

Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org> writes:

> On Mär 10 2020, Jörn Engel wrote:
>
>> 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>.

Yeek.  That sounds like a ticking time-bomb.