From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2011 04:31:16 GMT
Subject: Re: [IGNORETHIS/PATCH] Choosing the sha1 prefix of your commits
Message-ID: <7vvcrk9td7.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20111019193834.GA14168@sigill.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> And nothing shows up in the body, because git truncates at the NUL we
> added:
>
>   $ git show
>   commit 31337a1093af2d97eb2e6c08b261c2946395fdd3
>   Author: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
>   Date:   Wed Oct 19 15:34:00 2011 -0400
>
>       10
>
>   diff --git a/file b/file

But you cannot hide from "cat-file commit" ;-)

With the recent push to more (perceived) security, it may probably make
sense to teach "log" family commands to quote-show ^@ and what is behind
in their output by default, perhaps with an option to turn it off.