Re: change of git-diff-tree and symlinks

[Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>]

On Wed, May 25, 2005 at 12:40:51PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> >>>>> "KS" == Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> writes:
> 
> KS> Ok, works again. Any reason not to mark it as 'M'? It's easyly to
> KS> distinguish between a content change and a mode change by looking if
> KS> the sha has changed.
> 
> I'd need some time to think about this in the evening (I'm at
> work now) but I think Linus did '?' as an interim measure.  I
> suspect 'M' would work just as well without introducing a new
> class 'T', but on the other hand having them distinct would be
> easier for people who read diff-raw format, so my knee-jerk
> reaction is that we should use 'T'.  It's the same reasoning to
> have N, D, and U --- they can be gleaned by looking at mode and
> sha fields and there is no need to mark them any differently but
> surely marking them the way we do now is much nicer.

If we introduce 'T', how is a content _and_ a type change represented
if they happen at the same time?

Kay