Subject: Re: RFC: git cat-file --follow-symlinks?

From: Jeff King <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2015 23:18:41 -0400

On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 06:31:22PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> > would yield:
> >
> >  (1)   100644 8
> >        content
> >  (2)   040000 3
> >        foo
> >  (3)   040000 6
> >        ../foo
> [...]
> 
> s/040000/160000/ I would think (if you really meant to expose a
> tree, write it as 40000 instead, so that people will not get a wrong
> impression and reimplement a broken tree object encoding some popular
> Git hosting site broke their customer projects with ;-).

Whooops. Yes, definitely 160000. That's what I get for not
double-checking. :)

-Peff