Øystein Walle <oystwa@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > However, when specifying a format string it's just a matter of ending > the format string in '%00' and you're good to go. But then you get the > null byte *and* a newline. And with your proposal there would be no way > of saying you want neither. I very well understand that. All other commands that support "-z" to give you NUL terminated output do not consider that a downside. Why should for-each-ref be special? -- 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