Re: [PATCH] for-each-ref: add option to omit newlines

Øystein Walle <oystwa@gmail.com> writes:

Lack of "-z" in for-each-ref can be called an inconsistency that already exists you may want to fix in any case.

As an extension to that, I would not be fundamentally against a new option, e.g. "--terminiator=7", that causes us to use putchar(7) instead of putchar('\n') or putchar('\0') to terminate each records. At that point, "-z" becomes a synonym for "--terminator=0".

And "--terminator=''" might even be a natural extension to that option to cause us not to call any putchar() there.

If we were to do that, we should do them for all commands that let you use "-z", not just for-each-ref, for consistency reasons, I would think.