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

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Eric Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com>
Date
Apr 10, 2010, 21:12 UTC
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<20100410211223.GA29067@thyrsus.com>
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Julian Phillips <julian@quantumfyre.co.uk>:
> I didn't use "-" instead of " " as that seemed out of scope for a output
> formatting option.  Though I don't personally have an objection to it, I
> also don't see a particularly strong need for it as with the -Z format
> there is no ambiguity.

Good point. OK, the combinaation of -Z and a switch to list ignored files should solve Emacs VC's problem. 

Having some sort of JSON dump might still not be a bad idea.
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		<a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a>
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