Re: [PATCH] [GSOC] cat-file: fix --batch report changed-type bug

> > > I use ruby to parse binary data from git all the time:
> > > 
> > >         git log --format='%b%x00' |
> > >                 ruby -e 'ARGF.each("\0", chomp: true) { |chunk| p chunk }'
> > 
> > I doubt we'd want to add a ruby dependency to our test suite, but sure,
> > we could do the same thing with perl.
> 
> I don't mean in the final patches, I mean while the patches are
> being developed.
> 
> Once it's clear what the code should do, and how to verify it's doing
> what it's supposed to be doing, we can decide how the test suite should
> verify it.
> 
> Ruby is great for prototyping.