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Re: 'git status -z' missing separators on OSX

From
Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date
Jun 17, 2015, 19:17 UTC
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<20150617191703.GC25304@peff.net>
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On Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 09:07:36AM -0500, Tad Hardesty wrote:
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> Everything looks normal using the commands you described, and it does appear to only affect status:
> 
> ~/test (master)$ type git
> git is hashed (/usr/local/bin/git)
> ~/test (master)$ git config --list
> core.repositoryformatversion=0
> core.filemode=true
> core.bare=false
> core.logallrefupdates=true
> core.ignorecase=true
> core.precomposeunicode=true
> ~/test (master)$ GIT_TRACE=1 git status -z
> 08:59:11.806197 git.c:348               trace: built-in: git 'status' '-z'
> ~/test (master)$ git log --oneline -1 -z | hexdump -C
> 00000000  35 31 35 39 30 65 30 20  49 6e 69 74 69 61 6c 20  |51590e0 Initial |
> 00000010  63 6f 6d 6d 69 74 2e 00                           |commit..|
> 00000018
> ~/test (master)$ touch c d
> ~/test (master)$ git status -z | hexdump -C
> 00000000  3f 3f 20 63 3f 3f 20 64                           |?? c?? d|
> 00000008
> 
> This is again with 2.4.3 from git-scm.com.

Hmph. I don't really have any more ideas, then. I think my next step would be to walk it through a debugger (the interesting function is wt_shortstatus_status, or wt_shortstatus_other).

-Peff
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  1. Tad HardestyJun 17, 2015
  2. Jeff KingJun 17, 2015

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