"Elijah Newren" <newren@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
> On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 8:51 AM, Mikael Magnusson <mikachu@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> This is not a bug. The type of a file is in the tree, not the blob, see:
>>
>> % echo -n foo > file
>> % ln -s foo symlink
>> % git add file symlink
>> % git commit
>> Created initial commit 31ad9b0 on master: file and symlink
>> 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>> create mode 100644 file
>> create mode 120000 symlink
>> % git ls-tree HEAD
>> 100644 blob 19102815663d23f8b75a47e7a01965dcdc96468c file
>> 120000 blob 19102815663d23f8b75a47e7a01965dcdc96468c symlink
>
> Good to know. Given the mode (100644 or 120000) and the sha1sum, is
> there a git command that will create-my-file for me,...
git checkout -- that-path ;# from the index
git checkout commit that-path ;# from the commit/tree
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