From: Kevin Ballard <kevin@sb.org>
Date: Tue, 02 Nov 2010 21:24:43 GMT
Subject: Re: git check-attr -z and quoting
Message-ID: <7583D61F-64FA-44A8-B5C5-6E0FC329ED32@sb.org>
In-Reply-To: <20101102155705.GA17207@gnu.kitenet.net>

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.

-Kevin Ballard