From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2021 13:07:00 GMT
Subject: Re: [Question] git cat-file --batch cannot handle irregular path
Message-ID: <YILGdNkvyG2im6mk@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <xmqqim4h7fek.fsf@gitster.g>

On Mon, Apr 19, 2021 at 09:23:31PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> If properly designed, it would have
> 
>  - supported "-z" to take NUL-delimited input, and
> 
>  - when "-z" is not in effect, after reading a single line of input,
>    we would have called quote API to un-cquote the string, so that
>    we can express LF and other special characters in the pathname.
> 
> but those who worked on "cat-file --batch" didn't.

Yeah, this has been a long-standing pain.

It would be easy to add "-z" now, and probably worth doing.

It is too late to do the unquoting thing by default now. We could add an
option to enable it, but once "-z" exists, it hardly seems worth it.

-Peff