On Mon, Apr 19, 2021 at 09:23:31PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: > If properly designed, it would have > > - supported "-z" to take NUL-delimited input, and > > - when "-z" is not in effect, after reading a single line of input, > we would have called quote API to un-cquote the string, so that > we can express LF and other special characters in the pathname. > > but those who worked on "cat-file --batch" didn't. Yeah, this has been a long-standing pain. It would be easy to add "-z" now, and probably worth doing. It is too late to do the unquoting thing by default now. We could add an option to enable it, but once "-z" exists, it hardly seems worth it. -Peff
