From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2014 16:28:38 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] for-each-ref: add option to omit newlines
Message-ID: <xmqq38jlk6a1.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <loom.20140214T085928-630@post.gmane.org>

Øystein Walle <oystwa@gmail.com> writes:

> However, when specifying a format string it's just a matter of ending
> the format string in '%00' and you're good to go. But then you get the
> null byte *and* a newline. And with your proposal there would be no way
> of saying you want neither.

I very well understand that.  All other commands that support "-z"
to give you NUL terminated output do not consider that a downside.
Why should for-each-ref be special?