Package: git-core Version: 1:1.5.6.5-1 Severity: wishlist git cat-file supports --batch and --batch-check options, which take object names on standard input and provide object metadata and (for --batch) contents on standard output. It assumes that one object name appears per line. For sha1s this works fine, but for names this prevents the safe use of names that contain newline characters. To address this, git cat-file could support a -z option, which makes it accept '\0'-terminated names on stdin instead.
git cat-file will also print a message of the form <object> SP missing LF to stdout for each object not found in the repository. This will need revising as well to allow for object names with newlines; perhaps it could drop the object name and just print "missing" and an LF, assuming the consumer of the data knows what it asked for. - Josh Triplett -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.27-rc9-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages git-core depends on: ii libc6 2.7-15 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libcurl3-gnutls 7.18.2-7 Multi-protocol file transfer libra ii libdigest-sha1-perl 2.11-2+b1 NIST SHA-1 message digest algorith ii liberror-perl 0.17-1 Perl module for error/exception ha ii libexpat1 2.0.1-4 XML parsing C library - runtime li ii perl-modules 5.10.0-16 Core Perl modules ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-12 compression library - runtime Versions of packages git-core recommends: ii less 418-1 Pager program similar to more ii openssh-client [ssh-client] 1:5.1p1-3 secure shell client, an rlogin/rsh ii patch 2.5.9-5 Apply a diff file to an original ii rsync 3.0.4-3 fast remote file copy program (lik Versions of packages git-core suggests: pn git-arch <none> (no description available) pn git-cvs <none> (no description available) pn git-daemon-run <none> (no description available) pn git-doc <none> (no description available) pn git-email <none> (no description available) pn git-gui <none> (no description available) ii git-svn 1:1.5.6.5-1 fast, scalable, distributed revisi ii gitk 1:1.5.6.5-1 fast, scalable, distributed revisi pn gitweb <none> (no description available) -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
