Re: git status --porcelain is a mess that needs fixing

> On Sun, 11 Apr 2010 00:56:47 +1000, Jon Seymour <jon.seymour@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>> On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 11:35 PM, Julian Phillips
>> <julian@quantumfyre.co.uk> wrote:
>>> ...
>>> tokens depending on the status flags.  So it would make the parsing
>>> simpler.  But to make it even easier, how about adding a -Z that makes
>>> the
>>> output format "XY\0file1\0[file2]\0" (i.e. always three tokens per
>>> record,
>>> with the third token being empty if there is no second filename)?
>>>  Though
>>> if future expandability was wanted you could end each record with \0\0
>>> and
>>> then parsing would be a two stages of split on \0\0 for records and
> then
>>> split on \0 for entries?
>>
>> Surely that won't work - if file2 can be empty, \0[file2]\0 reduces to
>> \0\0 which would be confused with the \0\0 proposed as a record
>> separator.
>
> Yes.  But they were alternative suggestions, so if using \0\0 as the
> record marker you would omit the second filename when empty as is currently
> done.