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authorLibravatar Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2008-11-15 10:02:01 -0800
committerLibravatar Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2008-11-16 00:24:41 -0800
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Fix machine-parseability of 'git log --source'
The space between the commit and the source attribute is not easily machine-parseable: if we combine --source with --parents and give a SHA1 as a starting point, it's unnecessarily hard to see where the list of parents ends and the source decoration begins. Example: git show --parents --source $(git rev-list HEAD) which is admittedly contrived, but can easily happen in scripting. So use a <tab> instead of a space as the source separator. The other decorations didn't have this issue, because they were surrounded by parenthesis, so it's obvious that they aren't parent SHA1's. It so happens that _visually_ this makes no difference for "git log --source", since "commit <40-char SHA1>" is 47 characters, so both a space and a <tab> will end up showing as a single commit. Of course, with '--pretty=oneline' or '--parents' or '--abbrev-commit' you'll see the difference. Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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