From: Eric Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com>
To: Julian Phillips <julian@quantumfyre.co.uk>
Cc: Eric Raymond <esr@snark.thyrsus.com>,
Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH] status: Add a new NUL separated output format
Date: Sat, 10 Apr 2010 15:50:03 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100410195003.GA28871@thyrsus.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100410192529.23731.79803.julian@quantumfyre.co.uk>
Julian Phillips <julian@quantumfyre.co.uk>:
> Add a new output format option to git-status that is a more extreme
> form of the -z output that places a NUL between all parts of the
> record, and always has three entries per record, even when only two
> are relevant. This make the parsing of --porcelain output much
> simpler for the consumer.
If you're open to changing this to lose the exiguous "-> " and use "-"
instead of " " as a status character, that would make me happy
and fix the rest of the design problems with the format.
--
<a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-04-10 19:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-04-09 18:46 git status --porcelain is a mess that needs fixing Eric Raymond
2010-04-09 20:30 ` Junio C Hamano
2010-04-10 4:09 ` Jeff King
2010-04-10 5:46 ` Jonathan Nieder
2010-04-10 5:51 ` Jonathan Nieder
2010-04-10 6:03 ` Jeff King
2010-04-10 6:12 ` Jonathan Nieder
2010-04-10 6:32 ` Jeff King
2010-04-10 5:59 ` Eric Raymond
2010-04-10 7:40 ` [PATCH 0/5] "status --ignored" Junio C Hamano
2010-04-10 7:40 ` [PATCH 1/5] wt-status: remove unused workdir_untracked field Junio C Hamano
2010-04-10 7:40 ` [PATCH 2/5] wt-status: plug memory leak while collecting untracked files Junio C Hamano
2010-04-10 7:40 ` [PATCH 3/5] wt-status: collect ignored files Junio C Hamano
2010-04-10 7:48 ` Jeff King
2010-04-10 7:40 ` [PATCH 4/5] wt-status: rename and restructure status-print-untracked Junio C Hamano
2010-04-10 7:40 ` [PATCH 5/5] status: --ignored option shows ignored files Junio C Hamano
2010-04-10 7:44 ` [PATCH 0/5] "status --ignored" Jeff King
2010-04-10 7:48 ` Junio C Hamano
2010-04-10 8:40 ` Jeff King
2010-04-10 14:41 ` Eric Raymond
2010-04-10 18:27 ` Junio C Hamano
2010-04-10 19:20 ` Jakub Narebski
2010-04-11 10:35 ` Jeff King
2010-04-10 13:35 ` git status --porcelain is a mess that needs fixing Julian Phillips
2010-04-10 14:43 ` Eric Raymond
2010-04-10 14:56 ` Jon Seymour
2010-04-10 15:50 ` Julian Phillips
2010-04-10 23:33 ` Jon Seymour
2010-04-10 19:25 ` [RFC/PATCH] status: Add a new NUL separated output format Julian Phillips
2010-04-10 19:50 ` Eric Raymond [this message]
2010-04-10 20:34 ` Julian Phillips
2010-04-10 21:12 ` Eric Raymond
2010-04-10 23:03 ` [RFC/PATCH] status: Add json " Julian Phillips
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