[PATCH 3/8] tree-diff: no need to manually verify that there is no mode change for a path

Because if there is, such two tree entries would never be compared as equal - the code in base_name_compare() explicitly compares modes, if there is a change for dir bit, even for equal paths, entries would compare as different. The code I'm removing here is from 2005 April 262e82b4 (Fix

Re: [PATCH 3/8] tree-diff: no need to manually verify that there is no mode change for a path

Kirill Smelkov k...@mns.spb.ru writes: Because if there is, such two tree entries would never be compared as equal - the code in base_name_compare() explicitly compares modes, if there is a change for dir bit, even for equal paths, entries would compare as different. OK. -- To unsubscribe