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Re: git check-attr -z and quoting

From
Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net>
Date
Nov 2, 2010, 22:10 UTC
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<20101102221029.GA3646@gnu.kitenet.net>
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Kevin Ballard wrote:
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> On Nov 2, 2010, at 8:57 AM, Joey Hess wrote:
> 
> > First, thanks to all for supporting -z in various commands like 
> > git ls-files and git diff. Big help for plumbing, as I'm sure you know.
> > 
> > But, git check-attr -z only enables NUL separation of its input; output
> > always has munged pathnames. This bit me trying to use it as plumbing.
> 
> What do you mean by munged pathnames? As long as the path doesn't contain the sequence ": " it seems like the output should be unambiguous.
Quoted with quote_c_style()

$ perl -e 'print shift()."\n\0"' '¡hello!' | git check-attr eol -z --stdin "\302\241hello!\n": foo: unspecified

Maybe -Z could enable this output:
¡hello!\n\0foo\0unspecified\0
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  1. Joey HessNov 2, 2010
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  3. Joey HessNov 2, 2010

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