Re: [PATCH 0/4] rev-list: introduce NUL-delimited output mode

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mar 11, 2025, 23:44 UTC
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Justin Tobler <jltobler@gmail.com> writes:

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>>  (4) The traditional "rev-list --missing" output loses the leading
>>      "?"; it is replaced by "missing" as the <attr> name, i.e. such
>>      a record may look like "<oid> NUL missing=yes NUL..." together
>>      with other "<token>=<value> NUL" pairs appended as needed at
>>      the end.
>
> I think this is good. Instead of prefixing missing OIDs with '?', we can
> just append another token/value pair `missing=yes`.

And we may want to avoid excessive bloat of the output that is not primarily meant for human consumption, in which case perhaps a common things like "missing" and "path" can be given a shorter token, perhaps like "m=yes" and "p=Makefile"?