Am 06.10.2017 um 04:23 schrieb Junio C Hamano:
> René Scharfe <l....@web.de> 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

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