Brian Downing wrote:
On Mon, Oct 22, 2007 at 10:46:33PM -0700, Adam Roben wrote:
+--separator::
+ A string to print in between the output for each object passed on
+ stdin. A newline will be appended to the separator each time it is
+ printed.
Maybe I'm just unreasonably paranoid, but I don't think I could ever
trust that you'd never find an arbitrary separator in the data. I
suppose if you scanned the files beforehand you could come up with
something guaranteed to be unique, but that seems like a pain (and
doesn't happen regardless in patch 9/9; it just uses
"--------------GITCATFILESEPARATOR-----------") If I were committing to
SVN, it's sure not something I'd like to bet the integrity of my data
on.
I had some of the same concerns.
I think a far more reasonable output format for multiple objects would
be something like:
<count> LF
<raw data> LF
Where <count> is the number of bytes in the <raw data> as an ASCII
decimal integer.
This sounds like a much better solution. I'll implement it that way and
send out a new patch. Thanks for the suggestion!
-Adam
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