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From: Petr Baudis <pasky@ucw.cz>
To: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>,
	Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: A shortcoming of the git repo format
Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2005 21:39:03 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050427193903.GG22956@pasky.ji.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050427183239.GE19011@redhat.com>

Dear diary, on Wed, Apr 27, 2005 at 08:32:40PM CEST, I got a letter
where Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> told me that...
> That actually broke one of my first git scripts when one of the
> changelog texts started a line with 'tree '.  I hacked around it
> by making my script only grep in the 'head -n4' lines, but this
> seems somewhat fragile having to make assumptions that the field
> I want to see is in the first 4 lines.

The tree field is now always at the first line, but generally the header
part is variable-sized; you have multiple parent lines in case of
merges.

Just stop reading at the first newline.

-- 
				Petr "Pasky" Baudis
Stuff: http://pasky.or.cz/
C++: an octopus made by nailing extra legs onto a dog. -- Steve Taylor

  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-04-27 19:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-04-27  5:43 A shortcoming of the git repo format H. Peter Anvin
2005-04-27 15:00 ` C. Scott Ananian
2005-04-27 15:22 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-04-27 18:03   ` H. Peter Anvin
2005-04-27 18:32     ` Dave Jones
2005-04-27 18:47       ` H. Peter Anvin
2005-04-27 22:51         ` Jon Seymour
2005-04-27 19:15       ` Linus Torvalds
2005-04-27 19:39       ` Petr Baudis [this message]
2005-04-27 19:11     ` Linus Torvalds
2005-04-27 19:47       ` The " Brian O'Mahoney
2005-04-27 20:40       ` A shortcoming of the " H. Peter Anvin
2005-04-27 20:49         ` Tom Lord
2005-04-27 20:59           ` H. Peter Anvin
2005-04-28  0:57           ` Linus Torvalds
2005-04-28  1:34             ` Paul Jackson
2005-04-28  2:14             ` Tom Lord
2005-04-28  3:37             ` Ryan Anderson
2005-04-28  8:31             ` Morgan Schweers
2005-04-28 15:08             ` Barry Silverman
2005-04-27 20:56         ` Linus Torvalds
2005-04-28  0:45           ` David A. Wheeler
2005-04-28  0:46             ` David Lang
2005-04-27 23:50         ` Daniel Barkalow
2005-04-27 23:56           ` H. Peter Anvin
2005-04-28  1:51             ` Daniel Barkalow
2005-04-28  1:56               ` H. Peter Anvin
2005-04-28 13:39     ` David Woodhouse
2005-04-27 20:58 ` Gerhard Schrenk

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