Re: [RFC/PATCH] status: Add a new NUL separated output format

Julian Phillips [off-list ref]:

Add a new output format option to git-status that is a more extreme
form of the -z output that places a NUL between all parts of the
record, and always has three entries per record, even when only two
are relevant.  This make the parsing of --porcelain output much
simpler for the consumer.

If you're open to changing this to lose the exiguous "-> " and use "-"
instead of " " as a status character, that would make me happy 
and fix the rest of the design problems with the format.
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