From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: Eric Raymond <esr@snark.thyrsus.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: More git status --porcelain lossage
Date: Sat, 10 Apr 2010 00:14:42 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100410041442.GC11977@coredump.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100410041247.GB11977@coredump.intra.peff.net>
On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 12:12:48AM -0400, Jeff King wrote:
> > Conclusion: As it is presently, git status --porcelain format is
> > irretrievably botched. You need a field separator that's musch less
> > likely to land in a filename, like '|' - and to warn in the documentation
> > that careful front ends must check for and ignore '\|'.
>
> We already quote correctly, so it is only sloppy parsers that will be in
> trouble. Yes, space is more common than "|", but sloppy is sloppy. Parse
> it right, or use "-z".
BTW, this should go on your "git status --porcelain documentation
failures" list. We really need to note that the output paths may be
quoted.
-Peff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-04-10 4:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-04-09 19:06 More git status --porcelain lossage Eric Raymond
2010-04-09 19:09 ` Eric Raymond
2010-04-09 19:22 ` Jakub Narebski
2010-04-09 19:50 ` Eric Raymond
2010-04-10 4:12 ` Jeff King
2010-04-10 4:14 ` Jeff King [this message]
2010-04-10 18:48 ` Simon
2010-04-10 19:01 ` Jakub Narebski
2010-04-10 19:41 ` Eric Raymond
2010-04-10 20:31 ` Martin Langhoff
2010-04-10 22:28 ` Paolo Bonzini
2010-04-10 23:06 ` Eric Raymond
2010-04-11 11:04 ` David Aguilar
2010-04-10 21:21 ` Jakub Narebski
2010-04-10 22:57 ` Eric Raymond
2010-04-10 19:30 ` Eric Raymond
2010-04-10 19:39 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2010-04-10 21:24 ` Simon
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