From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2013 18:33:49 GMT
Subject: Re: [[PATCH v3] 1/2] [submodule] handle multibyte characters in name
Message-ID: <7vfvwko836.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20130614182741.GA5812@paksenarrion.iveqy.com>

Fredrik Gustafsson <iveqy@iveqy.com> writes:

> On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 10:23:52AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>> Fredrik Gustafsson <iveqy@iveqy.com> writes:
>> 
>> > ... The
>> > correct approach to solve the problem for all pathnames may be to use
>> > "ls-files -z" and tell the Perl script that reads its output to read NUL
>> > separated records by using $/ = "\0".
>> 
>> I've tentatively queued the attached without 2/2; the scriptlet is
>> small enough not to matter in an eventual rewrite, so it shouldn't
>> make a difference either way.
>
> Sorry, I didn't knew enough perl to understand that that was a
> suggestion rather than a hint to a future developer.

Heh, no need to be sorry.  It was a hint, and I just made you a
future developer ;-)