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Re: hmm, can't we give the "root" a parent?

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Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date
Sep 12, 2005, 23:09 UTC
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On Tue, 13 Sep 2005, Kay Sievers wrote:
> 
> 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.
It struck me that "--header" works fine with "--parents".

So if you're currently already using "git-rev-list --header" and parsing that, just add "--parents" and off you go. That's basically the same as --pretty=raw + zero-termination.

		Linus
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