Øystein Walle writes:
> Maybe it's all subjective... I'm okay with just leaving things as they
> are.
Lack of "-z" in for-each-ref can be called an inconsistency that
already exists you may want to fix in any case.
As an extension to that, I would not be fundamentally against a new
option, e.g.
Junio C Hamano pobox.com> writes:
>
> I very well understand that. All other commands that support "-z"
> to give you NUL terminated output do not consider that a downside.
> Why should for-each-ref be special?
>
After I discovered log also has this there is nothing special about
for-each-ref
Øystein Walle writes:
> However, when specifying a format string it's just a matter of ending
> the format string in '%00' and you're good to go. But then you get the
> null byte *and* a newline. And with your proposal there would be no way
> of saying you want neither.
I very well understand th
Junio C Hamano pobox.com> writes:
>
> I would rather see us go in the direction to add "-z" output option,
> which is what everybody else that produces NUL terminated entries in
> our suite of subcommands does.
>
I agree that -z would help in this case and I very much appreciate that
option wh
Øystein Walle writes:
> On to the patch itself: I contemplated putting '\n' in the default format and
> removing it if -n was given, which would get rid of the need to pass an exta
> argument to show_ref(). But that means we would need to *insert it* when a
> format is given and -n is not...
I w
Øystein Walle gmail.com> writes:
>
> splitting the output on newlines, for example.
>
Ugh, I mean on null bytes, naturally.
Øsse.
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Even when having specified a format string for-each-ref still prints a
newline after printing each ref according to the format. This breaks
splitting the output on newlines, for example.
Signed-off-by: Øystein Walle
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I was somewhat surprised by this behaviour; I expected to be in full control
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