lib/PublicInbox/Import.pm | 2 +-
 t/v2writable.t            | 2 +-

diff --git a/lib/PublicInbox/Import.pm b/lib/PublicInbox/Import.pm
index 94a49fe666f755a1b6da154548a2ea1acc9fe6de..6a640e2360674fce2491f76b21c0ea6ec39c735d 100644
--- a/lib/PublicInbox/Import.pm
+++ b/lib/PublicInbox/Import.pm
@@ -208,7 +208,7 @@ 		'from ', ($parent ? $parent : $tip), "\n" or wfail;
 	if (defined $path) {
 		print $w "D $path\n\n" or wfail;
 	} else {
-		print $w "M 100644 :$blob d\n\n" or wfail;
+		print $w "M 100644 :$blob _/D\n\n" or wfail;
 	}
 	$self->{nchg}++;
 	(($self->{tip} = ":$commit"), $cur);
diff --git a/t/v2writable.t b/t/v2writable.t
index a5c982e90be592c735870e28f11aeb4e41f1e1da..c6bcefd4f0e1833a0432211177b1e40a0815818b 100644
--- a/t/v2writable.t
+++ b/t/v2writable.t
@@ -210,7 +210,7 @@ 	$srch->each_smsg_by_mid($smsg->mid, sub { push @found, @_; 1 });
 	is(scalar(@found), 0, 'no longer found in Xapian skeleton');
 
 	my $after = $git0->qx(qw(log -1 --pretty=raw --raw -r --no-abbrev));
-	if ($after =~ m!( [a-f0-9]+ )A\td$!) {
+	if ($after =~ m!( [a-f0-9]+ )A\t_/D$!) {
 		my $oid = $1;
 		ok(index($before, $oid) > 0, 'no new blob introduced');
 	} else {