Re: Possible BUG in 'git log -z' last commit is not '\0' terminated

From: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
Date: Jun 23, 2007, 05:51 UTC
Message-ID: <e5bfff550706222251kdc6ccb4s6caf0195682ab727@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.0.98.0706221451570.3593@woody.linux-foundation.org>

On 6/22/07, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:

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> So you should think of the "\0" as being a delimeter that goes between
> commits, not something that "ends" the commit. It's not a "end of record"
> thing, it's a "between records" thing.
>

Thanks for explanation.

Interesting enough git-dif-tree with -z, documented as

"-z  \0 line termination on output"

has a different behaviour, with and without -p option:

git diff-tree -z HEAD ---> a '\0' is printed at the end

git diff-tree -z -p HEAD --> No '\0' is printed.

I suppose 'git log' passes '-z' to 'git diff-tree' because no documentation exsists in 'git log' man page.

Thanks Marco

BTW git-rev-list --header uses '\0' differently (appends to each record), but that's another story.