Re: [RFC] Submodules in GIT
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date: 2016-08-11 20:30:04
On Sat, 16 Dec 2006, Torgil Svensson wrote:
100644 blob <sha1 of blob> README 100644 blob <sha1 of blob> REPORTING-BUGS 100644 link <sha1 of blob> <sha1 of commit> 040000 tree <sha1 of tree> arch 040000 tree <sha1 of tree> block 040000 link <sha1 of tree> <sha1 of commit>
That 040000 needs to be something else. In order for something like a git-fsck-objects to know that it's a link, it needs to be marked as such. In git, we never just randomly open an object by SHA1, and then figure out its type. We always open things by explicitly knowing both the type and the SHA1, and if the object we find has the wrong type, that's a consistency error in the database (or the user).