From: Petr Baudis <pasky@ucw.cz>
Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2005 23:50:18 GMT
Subject: Re: teach ls-tree how to handle names with embedded LF
Message-ID: <20050413235018.GQ25711@pasky.ji.cz>
In-Reply-To: <7vd5sytf94.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

Dear diary, on Thu, Apr 14, 2005 at 01:43:03AM CEST, I got a letter
where Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> told me that...
> GIT dircache can represent filenames with embedded newline.
> Give ls-tree an option to terminate its output with '\0', so that
> its output can be further processed with tools like "sort -z"
> (and custom perl/python scripts).

Actually, what about just making it consistent with diff-tree and making
it always terminate the records with '\0'?

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