From: Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 07 Oct 2010 21:17:18 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/6] Remote helper: accept ':<value> <name>' as a response to 'list'
Message-ID: <AANLkTi=4Vc8456TVMHPTmLg=4VyFqtje6Mnz73VsHrKs@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20101005020035.GA10818@burratino>

Heya,

On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 04:00, Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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