From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2008 15:47:12 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] pretty.c: add %x00 format specifier.
Message-ID: <alpine.LSU.1.00.0803211646010.4124@racer.site>
In-Reply-To: <5d46db230803210805j95c6029m19b284836dcb504a@mail.gmail.com>

Hi,

On Fri, 21 Mar 2008, Govind Salinas wrote:

> This adds a %x00 format which parses the 00 as hex encoding for a byte 
> and prints the resulting byte.  This can be used to add null bytes or 
> other bytes that can make machine parsing easier.  It is also necessary 
> to use fwrite to print out the data since printf will terminate if you 
> feed it a null.
> 
> Junio supplied the hex decoding.

This is all nice and well, but if I understood you correctly, your 
original aim was to have a pretty-formatted list of the revisions, but 
NUL-delimited for easy parsing.

Which you can do with "git log --pretty=format:%s -z" right now.

Ciao,
Dscho