Re: More git status --porcelain lossage

Jakub Narebski [off-list ref]:

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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 '\|'. 

Or follow what other porcelain does, like git-diff-tree raw output
format, where all fields except final filename are space separated,
filename is separated by tab character (or NUL when '-z' options is
used).  If there are two names (in the case of copy or renames),
they are separated by a tab (or NUL).  Record ends with LF (or NUL).

When '-z' option is not used, TAB, LF, " and backslash characters
are represented by '\t', '\n', '\"' and \\, and the filename is
enclosed in '"' doublequotes.

That would be a bit trickier to parse, but acceptable.
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