Re: [PATCH 6/6] Teach core object handling functions about gitlinks

On 4/10/07, Frank Lichtenheld [off-list ref] wrote:

On Mon, Apr 09, 2007 at 09:20:29PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:

quoted

+     case S_IFDIR:
+             return resolve_gitlink_ref(path, "HEAD", sha1);
      default:
              return error("%s: unsupported file type", path);
      }

Not that I have time right now to look up the exact context (only read
the patch), but I would've expected a "case S_IFDIRLNK:" here?

No, the st_mode comes directly from file system. It knows nothing about
dirlinks.