From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Tue, 24 May 2005 00:25:32 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] diff-raw format update take #2.
Message-ID: <7vhdgt1ncz.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <87bcada447378d0173a3c5f165c70b38.ANY@taniwha.stupidest.org>

>>>>> "CW" == Chris Wedgwood <cw@f00f.org> writes:

>> +  (1) a colon.
>> +  (2) mode for "src"; 000000 if creation or unmerged.
>> +  (3) a space.
>> +  (4) mode for "dst"; 000000 if deletion or unmerged.
>> +  (5) a space.
>> +  (6) sha1 for "src"; 0{40} if creation or unmerged.
>> +  (7) a space.
>> +  (8) sha1 for "dst"; 0{40} if creation, unmerged or "look at work tree".
>> +  (9) status, followed by similarlity index number only for C and R.
>> + (10) a tab or a NUL when '-z' option is used.
>> + (11) path for "src"

CW> What if the path has embedded tabs or spacs?

Then you would use '-z'.  (10) becomes NUL which your path
cannot have inside.  So do (12) and (14).