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Re: [RFC/PATCH] status: Add a new NUL separated output format

From
Eric Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com>
Date
Apr 10, 2010, 19:50 UTC
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<20100410195003.GA28871@thyrsus.com>
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<20100410192529.23731.79803.julian@quantumfyre.co.uk>
Julian Phillips <julian@quantumfyre.co.uk>:
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> Add a new output format option to git-status that is a more extreme
> form of the -z output that places a NUL between all parts of the
> record, and always has three entries per record, even when only two
> are relevant.  This make the parsing of --porcelain output much
> simpler for the consumer.

If you're open to changing this to lose the exiguous "-> " and use "-" instead of " " as a status character, that would make me happy and fix the rest of the design problems with the format.

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		<a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a>
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  1. Eric RaymondApr 9, 2010
  2. Junio C HamanoApr 9, 2010
  3. Jeff KingApr 10, 2010
  4. Jonathan NiederApr 10, 2010
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  6. Jeff KingApr 10, 2010
  7. Jonathan NiederApr 10, 2010
  8. Jeff KingApr 10, 2010
  9. Eric RaymondApr 10, 2010
  10. Julian PhillipsApr 10, 2010
  11. Eric RaymondApr 10, 2010
  12. Jon SeymourApr 10, 2010
  13. Julian PhillipsApr 10, 2010
  14. Jon SeymourApr 10, 2010
  15. status: Add a new NUL separated output formatJulian Phillips, Apr 10, 2010
  16. Eric RaymondApr 10, 2010
  17. Julian PhillipsApr 10, 2010
  18. Eric RaymondApr 10, 2010
  19. status: Add json output formatJulian Phillips, Apr 10, 2010

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