Re: [PATCH] Add --show-size to git log to print message size

["Marco Costalba" <mcostalba@gmail.com>]

On 7/15/07, Sean <seanlkml@sympatico.ca> wrote:
> On Sun, 15 Jul 2007 17:58:21 +0200
> "Marco Costalba" <mcostalba@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > What should I search for to find the revision boundary? "\n\0" ? is
> > this that you mean with ^\0
>
> Essentially yes.  That pattern will never appear inside the comment
> or patch text because both sections are always indented.  So in the
> example you cite, "\n\0" would match the proper terminator, and the
> "\n-\0" NUL would be ignored.
>

But your scheme does not fail if the patch is not \n terminated ?

It can happen if the patch adds lines at the end of a file and the
last line is not \n terminated.

In this case your scheme seems to miss the good next revision boundary.


Marco