Justin Tobler <jltobler@xxxxxxxxx> writes: >> (4) The traditional "rev-list --missing" output loses the leading >> "?"; it is replaced by "missing" as the <attr> name, i.e. such >> a record may look like "<oid> NUL missing=yes NUL..." together >> with other "<token>=<value> NUL" pairs appended as needed at >> the end. > > I think this is good. Instead of prefixing missing OIDs with '?', we can > just append another token/value pair `missing=yes`. And we may want to avoid excessive bloat of the output that is not primarily meant for human consumption, in which case perhaps a common things like "missing" and "path" can be given a shorter token, perhaps like "m=yes" and "p=Makefile"?
