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From:   Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To:     Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Cc:     git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] cat-file: support NUL-delimited input with `-z`
References: <cover.1658532524.git.me@ttaylorr.com>
Date:   Fri, 22 Jul 2022 21:44:32 -0700
In-Reply-To: <cover.1658532524.git.me@ttaylorr.com> (Taylor Blau's message of
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Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com> writes:

> This short patch series implements a `-z` mode that is compatible with
> the `--batch`, `--batch-check`, and new `--batch-command` options in
> `cat-file`.

It's a shame that we forgot that people use strange "object name"
like "<tree>:<path>", when we originally intended to only take
simple object names, like fully-spelled hexadecimal.  And if we were
prepared to take <path>, we should have make sure we use the usual
cquote convention.