Re: Stupid quoting...

On 6/14/07, David Kastrup [off-list ref] wrote:

"Alex Riesen" [off-list ref] writes:

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On 6/14/07, David Kastrup [off-list ref] wrote:

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Johannes Schindelin [off-list ref] writes:

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Can you actually name a program that would work with the default
output of git here?

echo.

It doesn't, since it does not interpret the \NNN escape sequences that
git chooses to output.

Have you tried that -z switch yet?

What has that to do with "the default output of git"?

Yes, in my application I _will_ be using -z

Just checking.

 (in connection with the rather hackish read -d '' name
command from bash which is not really documented) but that does not
change the fact that the default output is broken.  There is no reason
whatsoever to use octal quotes for non-ASCII characters.  Neither
programs nor humans are better off by that, and none of the derision
bestowed upon me changes that.

Well, fix that. How do you think _should_ it be?

It's just up until now you are only complaining.
No _useful_ idea came from you.