Hi Joey, Joey Hess wrote[1]: > Commit c334b87b30c1464a1ab563fe1fb8de5eaf0e5bac caused a reversion in > git-cat-file --batch. > > With an older version: > > joey@gnu:~/tmp/rrr>git cat-file --batch > :file name > e69de29bb2d1d6434b8b29ae775ad8c2e48c5391 blob 0 > > With the new version: > > joey@wren:~/tmp/r>git cat-file --batch > :file name > :file missing > > This has broken git-annex's support for operating on files/directories > containing whitespace. I cannot see a way to query such a filename using > the new interface. Oh dear. Luckily you caught this before the final 1.8.4 release. I wonder if we should just revert c334b87b (cat-file: split --batch input lines on whitespace, 2013-07-11) for now. Thanks, Jonathan [1] http://bugs.debian.org/718517 -- 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