Re: [GSoC PATCH 1/2] repo: add the flag -z as an alias for --format=nul

From: Lucas Seiki Oshiro <lucasseikioshiro@gmail.com>
Date: Aug 21, 2025, 13:29 UTC
Message-ID: <65E661E9-B926-4EC1-B0EC-CDE2CD1557E5@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <aKb1BjPfmjBvHrm0@pks.im>

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> Not a 100% sure, but I think this would actually need to be formatted as
> 
>    [(--format=(keyvalue|nul)|-z)]
> 
> Looks a bit ugly though, so maybe the existent version is good enough?
> Others may have a more informed opinion.

I couldn't find other usage strings following that syntax in Git (I tried `git grep '\[[(].*|.*[)]\]' -- 'Documentation/git-*.adoc'`).

But I don't have any strong opinion about that. I'm open to suggestions.

Thanks!

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