# [PATCH] notes: fix malformed tree entry

2 messages from 2010-02-25 to 2010-02-25. Participants: Junio C Hamano, Johan Herland.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/22813

## Junio C Hamano, 2010-02-25 05:58

Subject: [PATCH] notes: fix malformed tree entry
Message-ID: <7vocjdkgaz.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/7vocjdkgaz.fsf%40alter.siamese.dyndns.org

```
The mode bits for entries in a tree object should be an octal number
with minimum number of digits.  Do not pad it with 0 to the left.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
---
 * This comes from 61a7cca (Notes API: write_notes_tree(): Store the notes
   tree in the database, 2010-02-13)

 notes.c |    4 ++--
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/notes.c b/notes.c
index 3ba3e6d..a4f9926 100644
--- a/notes.c
+++ b/notes.c
@@ -624,8 +624,8 @@ static void write_tree_entry(struct strbuf *buf, unsigned int mode,
 		const char *path, unsigned int path_len, const
 		unsigned char *sha1)
 {
-		strbuf_addf(buf, "%06o %.*s%c", mode, path_len, path, '\0');
-		strbuf_add(buf, sha1, 20);
+	strbuf_addf(buf, "%o %.*s%c", mode, path_len, path, '\0');
+	strbuf_add(buf, sha1, 20);
 }
 
 static void tree_write_stack_init_subtree(struct tree_write_stack *tws,
-- 
1.7.0.227.g2f3f2

```

## Johan Herland, 2010-02-25 11:31

Subject: Re: [PATCH] notes: fix malformed tree entry
Message-ID: <201002251231.11859.johan@herland.net>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/201002251231.11859.johan%40herland.net
In-Reply-To: <7vocjdkgaz.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

```
On Thursday 25 February 2010, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> The mode bits for entries in a tree object should be an octal number
> with minimum number of digits.  Do not pad it with 0 to the left.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

Acked-by: Johan Herland <johan@herland.net>

-- 
Johan Herland, <johan@herland.net>
www.herland.net

```
