Re: [GSoC PATCH v3 1/2] repo: add the flag -z as an alias for --format=nul

From: Lucas Seiki Oshiro <lucasseikioshiro@gmail.com>
Date: Sep 2, 2025, 21:51 UTC
Message-ID: <E6D61B04-E10A-4533-BB5F-E8E066AB4ADD@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <xmqqms7cltak.fsf@gitster.g>

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> This is OK and I do not want you to reroll only to revert this, but
> FWIW what you had in the previous iteration
> 
>    git repo info [--format=(keyvalue|nul) | -z] [<key>...]
> 
> would also work perfectly well here.  It is not like you are
> forbidding the command line to mention "--format=nul" twice, or
> "--format=keyvalue --format=nul" to allow the later one to override
> the former ones.

Hmmm, ok!

> The updated option parsing looks much nicer.  Thanks.

Thanks, Junio!

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