Re: Bug in gitk search box

From

Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

Date

Jul 26, 2007, 05:49 UTC

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Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> writes:

> Junio C Hamano writes:
>
>> There was a recent message from Linus on the list, stating that
>> NUL in -z format is inter-record separator, not after-record
>> terminator.
>
> OK, I'll have to change gitk then.  It looks like both Marco and I got
> tricked by this.  I suggest it's worth a mention in the documentation.

I think that is indeed necessary.  How about this?

---

diff --git a/Documentation/diff-options.txt b/Documentation/diff-options.txt
index 8216576..228ccaf 100644
--- a/Documentation/diff-options.txt
+++ b/Documentation/diff-options.txt
@@ -43,7 +43,9 @@
 	Synonym for "-p --stat".
 
 -z::
-	\0 line termination on output
+	NUL-line termination on output.  This affects the --raw
+	output field terminator.  Also output from commands such
+	as "git-log" will be delimited with NUL between commits.
 
 --name-only::
 	Show only names of changed files.