From: Simon <turner25@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 10 Apr 2010 18:48:05 GMT
Subject: Re: More git status --porcelain lossage
Message-ID: <l2k5f14cf5e1004101148h5cf8dc4bm1836cf1c5fc8abfb@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20100409190601.47B37475FEF@snark.thyrsus.com>

> A format properly designed for script parseability should use even use
> whitespace as a field separator.
>
> Why?
>
> Because if you do that, front ends *will* do field analysis using a
> naive split-on-whitespace operation.  And then...someday...someone
> will try to run one of these of these on a volume from a system where
> filenames contain embedded whitespace.  Like Mac OS X or Windows.

Why not use an XML output?
Plain text is easier to parse, but XML may give this extra durability
you are looking for?

Simon