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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)? ;-)

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