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From: Toon Claes <toon@to1.studio>
To: phillip.wood@dunelm.org.uk
Cc: Toon Claes <toon@iotcl.com>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] cat-file: quote-format name in error when using -z
Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2022 06:31:40 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87a63i7h8h.fsf@to1.studio> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <93d61412-3786-b2b3-3fe8-4574336b08fb@dunelm.org.uk>


Phillip Wood <phillip.wood123@gmail.com> 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@gmail.com/

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

  parent reply	other threads:[~2022-12-20  5:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-12-09 15:00 [PATCH 0/1] cat-file: quote-format name in error when using -z Toon Claes
2022-12-09 15:00 ` [PATCH 1/1] " Toon Claes
2022-12-09 19:33   ` Phillip Wood
2022-12-09 23:58     ` Junio C Hamano
2022-12-11 16:30       ` Phillip Wood
2022-12-12  0:11         ` Junio C Hamano
2022-12-12 11:34           ` Toon Claes
2022-12-12 22:09             ` Junio C Hamano
2022-12-13 15:06           ` Phillip Wood
2022-12-14  8:29             ` Junio C Hamano
2022-12-20  5:31     ` Toon Claes [this message]
2022-12-20 10:18       ` Phillip Wood
2022-12-21 12:42         ` Toon Claes
2023-01-05  6:24 ` [PATCH v2 0/1] " Toon Claes
2023-01-05  6:24   ` [PATCH v2 1/1] " Toon Claes
2023-01-16 19:07   ` [PATCH v3 0/1] " Toon Claes
2023-01-16 19:07     ` [PATCH v3 1/1] " Toon Claes
2023-01-17 15:24       ` Phillip Wood
2023-03-03 19:17     ` [PATCH v4 0/2] " Toon Claes
2023-03-03 19:17       ` [PATCH v4 1/2] cat-file: extract printing batch error message into function Toon Claes
2023-03-03 20:26         ` Junio C Hamano
2023-03-03 23:14           ` Junio C Hamano
2023-05-10 19:01             ` [PATCH v5 0/1] cat-file: quote-format name in error when using -z Toon Claes
2023-05-10 19:01               ` [PATCH v5 1/1] " Toon Claes
2023-05-10 20:13                 ` Junio C Hamano
2023-05-12  8:54                   ` Toon Claes
2023-05-12 16:57                     ` Junio C Hamano
2023-05-15  8:47                       ` Phillip Wood
2023-05-15 17:20                         ` Junio C Hamano
2023-06-02 13:29                           ` Phillip Wood
2023-03-03 19:17       ` [PATCH v4 2/2] " Toon Claes
2023-03-03 20:14       ` [PATCH v4 0/2] " Junio C Hamano

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