Re: Possible BUG in 'git log -z' last commit is not '\0' terminated

On 6/22/07, Linus Torvalds [off-list ref] wrote:

So you should think of the "\0" as being a delimeter that goes between
commits, not something that "ends" the commit. It's not a "end of record"
thing, it's a "between records" thing.

Thanks for explanation.

Interesting enough git-dif-tree with -z, documented as

"-z  \0 line termination on output"

has a different behaviour, with and without -p option:

git diff-tree -z HEAD ---> a '\0' is printed at the end

git diff-tree -z -p HEAD --> No '\0' is printed.

I suppose 'git log' passes '-z' to 'git diff-tree' because no
documentation exsists in 'git log' man page.

Thanks
Marco

BTW git-rev-list --header uses '\0' differently (appends to each
record), but that's another story.