On Tue, Jun 01, 2021 at 01:34:32AM -0500, Felipe Contreras wrote:
> > > I use ruby to parse binary data from git all the time:
> > >
> > > git log --format='%b%x00' |
> > > ruby -e 'ARGF.each("\0", chomp: true) { |chunk| p chunk }'
> >
> > I doubt we'd want to add a ruby dependency to our test suite, but sure,
> > we could do the same thing with perl.
>
> I don't mean in the final patches, I mean while the patches are
> being developed.
>
> Once it's clear what the code should do, and how to verify it's doing
> what it's supposed to be doing, we can decide how the test suite should
> verify it.
>
> Ruby is great for prototyping.
If we are not worried about the test suite, then I would think viewing
the output in "less" would be the simplest way to see that it's doing
the right thing.
-Peff
