From: Linus Torvalds Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2005 23:06:08 GMT Subject: Re: hmm, can't we give the "root" a parent? Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <20050912225032.GA8360@vrfy.org> On Tue, 13 Sep 2005, Kay Sievers wrote: > > But why does --pretty=raw mangle the text with spaces? > Well the output of this weird word combination may be "pretty" but definitely > not "raw". :) git-rev-list always makes sure that the header is clearly separated. We could have a "really-raw" format, of course, but.. > And I would prefer --pretty=raw with '\0' termination instead of '\n' so I can > replace the output from --header with --pretty=raw and can still use the same > parsing routine. Dang. That's one of the few programs that don't take -z. We could add it, but then you'd have to wait for that to percolate out again.. Linus