From: Joey Hess <id@joeyh.name>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: git cat-file --batch surprising carriage return behavior
Date: Tue, 8 Oct 2019 15:22:57 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20191008192257.GA16870@kitenet.net> (raw)
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I'm surprised to find that git cat-file --batch, on a Linux system,
strips the \r from an input like "HEAD:foo\r\n"
It's obvious, of course, that it will remove the newline, and so this
interface cannot be used to query about a filename that, for some
horrible reason[1], contains a newline. But very surprising that it
cannot be used for filename that contains a carriage return, at least
on a non-Windows system.
The docs for cat-file --batch say the list of objects is separated by
linefeeds. I don't know if updating the docs is the best fix.
(I'd be happy to use a -z if it had one.)
--
see shy jo
[1] aka "a large enough number of monkeys"
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next reply other threads:[~2019-10-08 19:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-10-08 19:22 Joey Hess [this message]
2019-10-08 20:00 ` git cat-file --batch surprising carriage return behavior Jeff King
2019-10-09 15:28 ` Joey Hess
2019-10-11 6:21 ` Jeff King
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