Re: [regression] Re: git-cat-file --batch reversion; cannot query filenames with spaces

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Aug 2, 2013, 16:41 UTC
Message-ID: <7vtxj8oxin.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20130802115906.GA9183@sigill.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

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> On Fri, Aug 02, 2013 at 03:54:02AM -0700, Jeff King wrote:
>
>> We need to revert that commit before the release. It can either be
>> replaced with:
>> 
>>   1. A "--split" (or similar) option to use the behavior only when
>>      desired.
>> 
>>   2. Enabling splitting only when %(rest) is used in the output format.
>
> Of the two, I think the latter is more sensible; the former is
> unnecessarily placing the burden on the user to match "--split" with
> their use of "%(rest)". The second is pointless without the first.
>
> A patch to implement (2) is below.

As I'd queue this on top of the revert, I had to wrangle it a bit to make it relative, i.e. "this resurrects what the other reverted patch did but in a weaker/safer form".

This will be kept outside this cycle.  Thanks for a quick fix.