Re: [PATCH v4 18/21] column: read lines with strbuf_getline()

On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 03:58:33PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:

Multiple lines read here are concatenated on a single line to form a
multi-column output line.  We do not want to have a CR at the end,
even if the input file consists of CRLF terminated lines.

Hrm. I suspect this is OK in practice, though "git column" can
technically receive unbounded input from the user. We don't specify in
the documentation that it must be text, but I guess it's somewhat
implied by the use of the word "line".

-Peff