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author | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2008-11-15 10:02:01 -0800 |
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committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2008-11-16 00:24:41 -0800 |
commit | 8c4021abfd170278d1a3431e2777bedd0c01fbb1 (patch) | |
tree | 1245de6c7df3d580c8fc06790647fa02211d5deb /Documentation/technical/api-string-list.txt | |
parent | Merge branch 'maint' (diff) | |
download | tgif-8c4021abfd170278d1a3431e2777bedd0c01fbb1.tar.xz |
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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