On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 12:12:48AM -0400, Jeff King wrote:

quoted text
> > Conclusion: As it is presently, git status --porcelain format is
> > irretrievably botched.  You need a field separator that's musch less
> > likely to land in a filename, like '|' - and to warn in the documentation
> > that careful front ends must check for and ignore '\|'.
> 
> We already quote correctly, so it is only sloppy parsers that will be in
> trouble. Yes, space is more common than "|", but sloppy is sloppy. Parse
> it right, or use "-z".

BTW, this should go on your "git status --porcelain documentation
failures" list. We really need to note that the output paths may be
quoted.

-Peff
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