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Re: [PATCH 1/6] Remote helper: accept ':<value> <name>' as a response to 'list'

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Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com>
Date
Oct 7, 2010, 21:17 UTC
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Heya,
On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 04:00, Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> wrote:
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> In particular, each line has a 40-character object id, a tab character,
> and then something like a refname.
>
> If we want to extend that, wouldn't we need to do something like
>
>        0000...0000     <refname>
>        0000...0000     <refname> is r11
>
> to avoid breaking people's scripts?

I don't know... I'd suspect that people's scripts are going to break regardless, but if this is being used in scripts I agree we should make it as easy as possible for scripters to parse this output.

-- 
Cheers,

Sverre Rabbelier
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Message 4 of 21 in “[RFC] New type of remote helpers”
  1. Tomas CarneckyOct 3, 2010
  2. 1/6 Remote helper: accept ':<value> <name>' as a response to 'list'Tomas Carnecky, Oct 3, 2010
  3. Jonathan NiederOct 5, 2010
  4. Sverre RabbelierOct 7, 2010
  5. 2/6 Allow more than one keepfile in the transportTomas Carnecky, Oct 3, 2010
  6. Jonathan NiederOct 5, 2010
  7. 3/6 Allow the transport fetch command to add additional refsTomas Carnecky, Oct 3, 2010
  8. Jonathan NiederOct 5, 2010
  9. 4/6 Rename get_mode() to decode_tree_mode() and export itTomas Carnecky, Oct 3, 2010
  10. Jonathan NiederOct 5, 2010
  11. 5/6 Introduce the git fast-import-helperTomas Carnecky, Oct 3, 2010
  12. Jonathan NiederOct 3, 2010
  13. Tomas CarneckyOct 3, 2010
  14. Sverre RabbelierOct 3, 2010
  15. Tomas CarneckyOct 3, 2010
  16. Sverre RabbelierOct 3, 2010
  17. 6/6 Add git-remote-svnTomas Carnecky, Oct 3, 2010
  18. Jonathan NiederOct 5, 2010
  19. Sverre RabbelierOct 3, 2010
  20. Jonathan NiederOct 3, 2010
  21. Ramkumar RamachandraOct 3, 2010

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