From: Petr Baudis <pasky@ucw.cz>
Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2005 19:39:03 GMT
Subject: Re: A shortcoming of the git repo format
Message-ID: <20050427193903.GG22956@pasky.ji.cz>
In-Reply-To: <20050427183239.GE19011@redhat.com>

Dear diary, on Wed, Apr 27, 2005 at 08:32:40PM CEST, I got a letter
where Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> told me that...
> That actually broke one of my first git scripts when one of the
> changelog texts started a line with 'tree '.  I hacked around it
> by making my script only grep in the 'head -n4' lines, but this
> seems somewhat fragile having to make assumptions that the field
> I want to see is in the first 4 lines.

The tree field is now always at the first line, but generally the header
part is variable-sized; you have multiple parent lines in case of
merges.

Just stop reading at the first newline.

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				Petr "Pasky" Baudis
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