Sorry about the =3D escapes. My first attempt to submit bounced b/c it was html and I missed cleaning some escapes. The snippet should be: if type_base == "symlink": git_mode = "120000" # p4 print on a symlink contains "target\n"; remove the newline data = ''.join(contents) contents = [data[:-1]] --Alex -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html