When walking objects, git-rev-list(1) prints each object entry on a
separate line. Some options, such as `--objects`, may print additional
information about tree and blob object on the same line in the form:
$ git rev-list --objects <rev>
<tree/blob oid> SP [<path>] LF
Note that in this form the SP is appended regardless of whether the tree
or blob object has path information available. Paths containing a
newline are also truncated at the newline.
Introduce the `-z` option for git-rev-list(1) which reformats the output
to use NUL-delimiters between objects and associated info in the
following form:
$ git rev-list -z --objects <rev>
<oid> NUL [path=<path> NUL]
In this form, the start of each record is signaled by an OID entry that
is all hexidecimal and does not contain any '='. Additional path info
from `--objects` is appended to the record as a token/value pair
`path=<path>` as-is without any truncation.
For now, the `--objects` flag is the only options that can be used in
combination with `-z`. In a subsequent commit, NUL-delimited support for
other options is added. Other options that do not make sense when used
in combination with `-z` are rejected.
Signed-off-by: Justin Tobler <jltobler@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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