From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Fri, 15 Jan 2016 20:43:25 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 18/21] column: read lines with strbuf_getline()
Message-ID: <20160115204325.GH11301@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <1452815916-6447-19-git-send-email-gitster@pobox.com>

On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 03:58:33PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> Multiple lines read here are concatenated on a single line to form a
> multi-column output line.  We do not want to have a CR at the end,
> even if the input file consists of CRLF terminated lines.

Hrm. I suspect this is OK in practice, though "git column" can
technically receive unbounded input from the user. We don't specify in
the documentation that it must be text, but I guess it's somewhat
implied by the use of the word "line".

-Peff