From: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2013 15:29:51 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 08/10] cat-file: split --batch input lines on whitespace
Message-ID: <CALkWK0mGMZPWowZ0ULNuGKD8w2Q=kN0nEGaOkuWoYKmzD5zGrw@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20130710114828.GH21963@sigill.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King wrote:
>   git rev-list --objects HEAD |
>   git cat-file --batch-check='%(objectsize) %(text)'

If anything, I would have expected %(rest), not %(text).  This atom is
specific to commands that accept input via stdin (i.e. not log, f-e-r,
branch, or anything else I can think of).

Also, this makes me wonder if %(field:0), %(field:1), and probably
%(field:@) are good ideas.  Even if we go down that road, I don't
think %(rest) is a problem per-se.