From: Eric Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com>
Date: Sat, 10 Apr 2010 19:50:03 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH] status: Add a new NUL separated output format
Message-ID: <20100410195003.GA28871@thyrsus.com>
In-Reply-To: <20100410192529.23731.79803.julian@quantumfyre.co.uk>

Julian Phillips <julian@quantumfyre.co.uk>:
> 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>