From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2005 19:15:10 GMT
Subject: Re: A shortcoming of the git repo format
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0504271212460.18901@ppc970.osdl.org>
In-Reply-To: <20050427183239.GE19011@redhat.com>



On Wed, 27 Apr 2005, Dave Jones wrote:
> 
> That actually broke one of my first git scripts when one of the
> changelog texts started a line with 'tree '.  I hacked around it
> by making my script only grep in the 'head -n4' lines, but this
> seems somewhat fragile having to make assumptions that the field
> I want to see is in the first 4 lines.

It's not an assumption.

IT'S THE LAW.

The speed of light is not "an assumption". It is.

The tree is in the first line of a commit. You don't even need to parse 
it, you do

	tree=$(cat-file commit $head | sed 's/tree //;q')

and that's it. No parsing.

Git doesn't guess. Git knows.

		Linus