From: Simon <turner25@gmail.com>
To: Eric Raymond <esr@snark.thyrsus.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: More git status --porcelain lossage
Date: Sat, 10 Apr 2010 14:48:05 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <l2k5f14cf5e1004101148h5cf8dc4bm1836cf1c5fc8abfb@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100409190601.47B37475FEF@snark.thyrsus.com>
> A format properly designed for script parseability should use even use
> whitespace as a field separator.
>
> Why?
>
> Because if you do that, front ends *will* do field analysis using a
> naive split-on-whitespace operation. And then...someday...someone
> will try to run one of these of these on a volume from a system where
> filenames contain embedded whitespace. Like Mac OS X or Windows.
Why not use an XML output?
Plain text is easier to parse, but XML may give this extra durability
you are looking for?
Simon
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-04-10 18:48 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
2010-04-10 18:48 ` Simon [this message]
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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