On Sun 2018-06-10 18:02:02 -0700, Pádraig Brady wrote: > I used --zero rather than --zero-terminated like other tools that > only change _output_ format with -z, rather than supporting it also > as an _input_ format. It would complicate the processing to support > --check of input with --zero, with no added functionality. > Having --check support this format, would also an incompat with > older versions of these tools.
this looks like a fine first step to me, and i hope it will be merged. thanks for working on it, Pádraig! I'm not convinced yet that adding --zero for the --check functionality is a guaranteed incompatibility. Clearly the same flags would need to be used on both sides, but i don't see why having it available in --check would be a problem. --dkg