From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Thu, 26 May 2011 21:45:01 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] t7508: demonstrate status's failure to use --porcelain format with -z
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Brandon Casey <casey@nrlssc.navy.mil> writes:

> From: Brandon Casey <drafnel@gmail.com>
>
> When 'git status' is supplied the -z switch, and no output format has been
> selected, it is supposed to use the --porcelain format.  This does not
> happen.  Instead, the standard long format is used.  Add a test to
> demonstrate this failure.
>
> Signed-off-by: Brandon Casey <casey@nrlssc.navy.mil>

I didn't even know we attempted to default to porcelain when -z is given,
even though it is a logical thing to do in the sense that nobody sane
would want to read a NUL-terminated human readable format.

I'll rewrite the test to avoid hardcoded and context dependent
test vector, like this:

    test_expect_failure 'status -z implies porcelain' '
           git status --porcelain |
           perl -pe "s/\012/\000/g" >expect
           git status -z >output &&
           test_cmp expect output
    '

as the only thing you are interested in is the two output to match
identically modulo the record termination.

By the way, don't we however also want to make sure -z does not kick in
automatically when other options like "short" or "normal" is given?