On Sat, 10 Apr 2010 15:50:03 -0400, Eric Raymond <esr@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Julian Phillips <julian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: >> Add a new output format option to git-status that is a more extreme >> form of the -z output that places a NUL between all parts of the >> record, and always has three entries per record, even when only two >> are relevant. This make the parsing of --porcelain output much >> simpler for the consumer. > > If you're open to changing this to lose the exiguous "-> " and use "-" > instead of " " as a status character, that would make me happy > and fix the rest of the design problems with the format. If you use "--porcelain -Z" then you don't get the "->", the format is always XY<NUL><file1><NUL><file2><NUL>, with <file2> being an empty string if only file1 is relevant. I didn't use "-" instead of " " as that seemed out of scope for a output formatting option. Though I don't personally have an objection to it, I also don't see a particularly strong need for it as with the -Z format there is no ambiguity. If you're talking about the output without -Z, then changing the format raises compatibility issues, and were talking about something more like --porcelain2 or --porcelain=new and I don't know if that would be considered acceptable. -- Julian -- 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