From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Thu, 26 May 2011 23:31:36 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:

>> 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?

Heh, the above obviously does not make sense. What I meant was "if you
have -z but also --short or something other than --porcelain, -z should
not cause the command to fall back to --porcelain".

> It seems it was intended to be able to do
>
>    git status -z --short

Yes, you are of course right; in this case we shouldn't do either normal
nor porcelain; we should do NUL-terminated short output.