On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 12:12:48AM -0400, Jeff King wrote: > > Conclusion: As it is presently, git status --porcelain format is > > irretrievably botched. You need a field separator that's musch less > > likely to land in a filename, like '|' - and to warn in the documentation > > that careful front ends must check for and ignore '\|'. > > We already quote correctly, so it is only sloppy parsers that will be in > trouble. Yes, space is more common than "|", but sloppy is sloppy. Parse > it right, or use "-z". BTW, this should go on your "git status --porcelain documentation failures" list. We really need to note that the output paths may be quoted. -Peff -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html