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Re: git log and utf-u in filenames

From
Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date
Sep 27, 2008, 08:37 UTC
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On Fri, 26 Sep 2008, Alex Riesen wrote:
> 2008/9/26 Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>:
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>>> How about simply splitting output on end of line ("\0" NUL) characters?
>>> The "\n" NL you refer to is just as EOR as NUL.
>>
>> Doesn't work for "git diff-tree -z [...]" output. When there is rename
>> or copy detected, NUL is used as separator between fields (beetween
>> source and destination unquoted filename), not only between records:
>>
>>  git diff-tree
>>      .... <src qfilename> TAB <dst qfilename> LF
>>
>>  git diff-tree -z
>>      .... <src filename>  NUL <dst filename>  NUL
>>
> 
> You still have the marker (Rnnn) from pre-<src filename> record and
> can treat the next record correspondingly. Still a split, just a bit more
> careful handling of the resulting list/array.
Currently gitweb does something like this:
  open $fd, "-|", git_cmd(), "diff-tree", '-r', ...
  @difftree = <$fd>;
  close $fd;
  foreach my $line (@difftree) {
     ...
  }

If gitweb would use git-diff-tree with '-z' option, above code would get more complicated, offsetting simplification of not using unquote() (which is already written).

-- 
Jakub Narebski
Poland
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