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Git Patch - Symlink Created With mode 120000

Git stores a symlink as a blob whose contents are the link target with no trailing newline, so this patch adds a single + line followed by the no-newline marker and marks it mode 120000. A patcher that ignores the mode writes a regular text file containing a path.

Visual diff / regression Code parsing Editor testing

Preview — first 23 linespatch

From 583350b7e8e635190615f9b3ceea3452809376c3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Priya Raman <priya.raman@example.invalid>
Date: Fri, 6 Mar 2026 14:03:56 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] build: link the schema package into the web tree

Keeps the generated types in one place instead of two copies.
---
 web/schema | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 0 deletions(-)
 create mode 120000 web/schema

diff --git a/web/schema b/web/schema
new file mode 120000
index 0000000..3ac446a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/web/schema
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+../../vendor/ledger-schema
\ No newline at end of file
-- 
2.43.0

Specifications

Seed: 20260807
Extended Header: new file mode 120000
Files: 1
Link Target: ../../vendor/ledger-schema
Trailing Newline: false
Line Endings: LF
Encoding: UTF-8

Testing contract

Expected to pass

Scenario: Apply a patch whose new file carries mode 120000.
Expected result: web/schema is created as a symbolic link to ../../vendor/ledger-schema — not as a regular file whose contents are that string.

What is a .patch file?

A .patch file is a unified diff packaged for transmission, most often as produced by `git format-patch`. Beyond the diff itself it carries an email-style header with the author, date, and commit subject, a commit message body, per-file `diff --git` headers recording renames and mode changes, and hunk headers of the form `@@ -old,count +new,count @@`. Applying it reconstructs a specific change against a specific before-state.

How to use this file

Use an example .patch file to test patch application, code-review renderers, and diff parsers — exercising renames, mode changes, binary hunks, added and deleted files, and the `\ No newline at end of file` marker that naive parsers silently drop.

How to use this file for testing

“Git Patch - Symlink Created With mode 120000” is a deterministic Novus Examples fixture for Visual diff / regression, Code parsing, Editor testing. A/B image twins with controlled pixel changes, anti-alias variants, and UI chrome crops for screenshot diff and visual regression tools.

Documented properties for this file: seed 20260807 · UTF-8 · LF. Compare results against paired or grouped companions on this page when present (clean↔damaged, searchable↔scanned, or format twins) so scores stay reproducible across runs.

Download the file once, keep the path stable in CI or local scripts, and treat the spec table as the contract: dimensions, seeds, field lists, and roles are intentional. Corrupt or invalid samples are labelled as such — expect parsers to fail loudly rather than silently accept them.

Diff and patch fixtures name their target paths and the exact edge case they exercise — rename, mode change, binary hunk, CRLF↔LF, or missing trailing newline. Apply or render them against the documented before-state; every author, path, and hash is fictional.

Treat A/B twins as a visual regression unit: run your pixel or perceptual diff, assert a non-zero delta on the changed twin, and keep thresholds calibrated against the documented change kind in specs.