From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2005 23:09:58 GMT
Subject: Re: hmm, can't we give the "root" a parent?
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0509121608130.3266@g5.osdl.org>
In-Reply-To: <20050912225032.GA8360@vrfy.org>



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