Am 06.10.2017 um 04:23 schrieb Junio C Hamano: > René Scharfe <l.s.r@xxxxxx> writes: >> + blob_bin=$(echo $blob | hex2oct) && >> + tree=$( >> + printf "40000 dir\0${blob_bin}100644 file\0${blob_bin}" | > > Wow, that's ... cute. > >> + git hash-object -t tree --stdin -w --literally > > Makes me curious why --literally is here. Even if we let > check_tree() called from index_mem() by taking the normal path, > it wouldn't complain the type mismatch, I suspect. I guess doing it > this way is a future-proof against check_tree() getting tightened in > the future, in which case I think it makes sense. > > And for the same reason, hashing "--literally" like this patch does > is a better solution than using "git mktree", which would have > allowed us to avoid the hex2oct and instead feed the tree in a bit > more human-readable way. git mktree errors out already, complaining about the object type mismatch. But I added "--literally" only accidentally, when I copied the invocation from a few lines up. The test works fine without that flag currently. The flag captures the intent, however, of knowingly building a flawed tree object. René