Again I am not sure why this was missed during the last round,
but git-diff-files mishandles symlinks on the filesystem. This
patch fixes it.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <redacted>
---
*** Petr, this one falls into "emergency obvious fix" category.
*** I found it during adding more "basic" test to the test suite,
*** which turns out to be quite useful.
diff-files.c | 3 ++-
1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/diff-files.c
+++ b/diff-files.c
@@ -126,7 +126,8 @@
continue;
oldmode = ntohl(ce->ce_mode);
- mode = S_IFREG | ce_permissions(st.st_mode);
+ mode = (S_ISLNK(st.st_mode) ? S_IFLNK :
+ S_IFREG | ce_permissions(st.st_mode));
show_modified(oldmode, mode, ce->sha1, null_sha1,
ce->name);
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