Re: [PATCH] Add a -z option to 'git status' to safely feed shell programs with path names

[Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org>]

On Sat, May 17, 2008 at 11:14:01AM +0100, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Fri, 16 May 2008, Shawn O. Pearce wrote:
> 
> > Sebastien Gross <seb-git@chezwam.org> wrote:
> > > Add a -z option to 'git status' to get a list of all files
> > > but ignored, starting with modification type or 'untracked'
> > > as prefix and ending with '\0'.
> > 
> > Hmm.  Is the plumbing really that broken that you need to add -z support 
> > to porcelain rather than using the -z support already built into the 
> > plumbing?
> 
> To answer the retorical question: no, it is not.  git ls-files already has 
> the "-z" flag, and we even have the scripts in contrib/examples/ to prove 
> that it works very fine, thankyouverymuch.
> 
> Just as an example: this ugly, long line
> 
> git status -z | gawk 'BEGIN{RS="\0"; ORS="\0";}/^untracked/ \
>         {sub("^.+:", "");print}' | xargs -0 -r rm
> 
> could be expressed like this:
> 
> git ls-files --others -z | xargs -0 -r rm

or git clean -f

Mike