Phillip Wood <phillip.wood123@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > Thanks for working on this. I'd previously suggested NUL terminating the output > of "git cat-file -z" to avoid this problem [1] > > [1] > https://lore.kernel.org/git/66b71194-ad0e-18d0-e43b-71e5c47ba111@xxxxxxxxx/ What happened to this proposal? I don't see any replies to that. That's a bit sad, because it would have been nice to have it this behavior from the start. > but quoting the object name is a better solution. I would not say it's a better solution, but it's a less invasive solution that /minimizes/ breaking changes. Ideally I'd like to have NUL terminated output for "git cat-file -z". In a success situation I assume this would return: <oid> SP <type> SP <size> NUL <contents> NUL In a failure situation something like: <object> SP missing NUL So when you pass -z you can keep reading until the first NUL and then you'll know if you should read for contents as well. Would you consider change behavior to this now? -- Toon
