From: Adam Roben <aroben@apple.com>
To: Brian Downing <bdowning@lavos.net>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/9] git-cat-file: Add --separator option
Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2007 21:26:05 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <471EC95D.6050201@apple.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071024034301.GE24924@lavos.net>
Brian Downing wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 22, 2007 at 10:46:33PM -0700, Adam Roben wrote:
>
>> +--separator::
>> + A string to print in between the output for each object passed on
>> + stdin. A newline will be appended to the separator each time it is
>> + printed.
>>
>
> Maybe I'm just unreasonably paranoid, but I don't think I could ever
> trust that you'd never find an arbitrary separator in the data. I
> suppose if you scanned the files beforehand you could come up with
> something guaranteed to be unique, but that seems like a pain (and
> doesn't happen regardless in patch 9/9; it just uses
> "--------------GITCATFILESEPARATOR-----------") If I were committing to
> SVN, it's sure not something I'd like to bet the integrity of my data
> on.
>
I had some of the same concerns.
> I think a far more reasonable output format for multiple objects would
> be something like:
>
> <count> LF
> <raw data> LF
>
> Where <count> is the number of bytes in the <raw data> as an ASCII
> decimal integer.
>
This sounds like a much better solution. I'll implement it that way and
send out a new patch. Thanks for the suggestion!
-Adam
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-10-24 4:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-10-23 5:46 [PATCH 0/9] Make git-svn fetch ~1.7x faster Adam Roben
2007-10-23 5:46 ` [PATCH 1/9] Add tests for git cat-file Adam Roben
2007-10-23 5:46 ` [PATCH 2/9] git-cat-file: Small refactor of cmd_cat_file Adam Roben
2007-10-23 5:46 ` [PATCH 3/9] git-cat-file: Make option parsing a little more flexible Adam Roben
2007-10-23 5:46 ` [PATCH 4/9] git-cat-file: Add --stdin option Adam Roben
2007-10-23 5:46 ` [PATCH 5/9] git-cat-file: Add --separator option Adam Roben
2007-10-23 5:46 ` [PATCH 6/9] Add tests for git hash-object Adam Roben
2007-10-23 5:46 ` [PATCH 7/9] git-hash-object: Add --stdin-paths option Adam Roben
2007-10-23 5:46 ` [PATCH 8/9] Git.pm: Add command_bidi_pipe and command_close_bidi_pipe Adam Roben
2007-10-23 5:46 ` [PATCH 9/9] git-svn: Make fetch ~1.7x faster Adam Roben
2007-10-23 7:01 ` Johannes Sixt
2007-10-24 6:34 ` Eric Wong
2007-10-24 6:48 ` Adam Roben
2007-10-23 5:53 ` [PATCH 7/9] git-hash-object: Add --stdin-paths option Shawn O. Pearce
2007-10-23 5:57 ` Adam Roben
2007-10-23 6:10 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-10-24 6:11 ` Eric Wong
2007-10-23 6:59 ` [PATCH 6/9] Add tests for git hash-object Johannes Sixt
2007-10-24 3:43 ` [PATCH 5/9] git-cat-file: Add --separator option Brian Downing
2007-10-24 4:26 ` Adam Roben [this message]
2007-10-23 6:59 ` [PATCH 1/9] Add tests for git cat-file Johannes Sixt
2007-10-23 6:08 ` [PATCH 0/9] Make git-svn fetch ~1.7x faster Mike Hommey
2007-10-23 6:13 ` Adam Roben
2007-10-24 0:43 ` Sam Vilain
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