How to interprit git create mode message

Asked Jan 02 '13 at 18:52

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How to read the mode field of git-ls-tree’s output
What does ‘git commit’ mean when it says ‘create mode …’ on stdout?

I've added some files to git and I get the following message:

create mode 100644 file.txt

Obviously, 644 is the unix file permissions. What does the 100 portion mean?

edited May 23 '17 at 12:23

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asked Jan 02 '13 at 18:52

paxos1977

http://stackoverflow.com/a/8347325 – Robert Harvey Jan 02 '13 at 18:54
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8521938 – Robert Harvey Jan 02 '13 at 18:54
We definitely need better search on the site ;) I voted to close my question as a duplicate. – paxos1977 Jan 02 '13 at 20:40

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