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From: Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Cc: sean <seanlkml@sympatico.ca>,
	"Sébastien Pierre" <sebastien@xprima.com>,
	git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Cherry-pick particular object
Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2006 00:54:29 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060328225429.GD27689@pasky.or.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0603281435410.15714@g5.osdl.org>

Dear diary, on Wed, Mar 29, 2006 at 12:44:02AM CEST, I got a letter
where Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> said that...
> Ie you can have a tree like this:
> 
> 	100644 blob f2ba8f84ab5c1bce84a7b441cb1959cfc7093b7f    abc
> 	120000 blob f2ba8f84ab5c1bce84a7b441cb1959cfc7093b7f    file
> 
> where the first one is a regular file called "abc" (which contains the 
> string "abc"), and the second is the _symlink_ that points to "abc".
> 
> They share the exact same blob, and what distinguishes them is the 
> filemode info from git-read-tree.

Huh? Didn't you rather want to say that "file" will point to a blob
containing just the "abc" string (the symlink target)? ;-)

-- 
				Petr "Pasky" Baudis
Stuff: http://pasky.or.cz/
Right now I am having amnesia and deja-vu at the same time.  I think
I have forgotten this before.

  reply	other threads:[~2006-03-28 22:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-03-28 16:31 Cherry-pick particular object Sébastien Pierre
     [not found] ` <20060328163422.0981a743.seanlkml@sympatico.ca>
2006-03-28 21:34   ` sean
2006-03-28 17:23     ` Sébastien Pierre
2006-03-28 22:44     ` Linus Torvalds
2006-03-28 22:54       ` Petr Baudis [this message]
2006-03-28 23:24         ` Linus Torvalds
2006-03-28 23:28           ` Petr Baudis
2006-03-28 21:37 ` Shawn Pearce
2006-03-28 21:38 ` Tony Luck

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