branch, for-each-ref, tag: add option to omit empty lines

If the given format string expands to the empty string, a newline is
still printed. This makes using the output linewise more tedious. For
example, git update-ref --stdin does not accept empty lines.

Add options to "git branch", "git for-each-ref", and "git tag" to
not print these empty lines.  The default behavior remains the same.

Signed-off-by: Øystein Walle <oystwa@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/builtin/for-each-ref.c b/builtin/for-each-ref.c
index 6f62f40d12..1fc5130481 100644
--- a/builtin/for-each-ref.c
+++ b/builtin/for-each-ref.c
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ int cmd_for_each_ref(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
 	int i;
 	struct ref_sorting *sorting;
 	struct string_list sorting_options = STRING_LIST_INIT_DUP;
-	int maxcount = 0, icase = 0;
+	int maxcount = 0, icase = 0, omit_empty = 0;
 	struct ref_array array;
 	struct ref_filter filter;
 	struct ref_format format = REF_FORMAT_INIT;
@@ -35,6 +35,8 @@ int cmd_for_each_ref(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
 			N_("quote placeholders suitably for python"), QUOTE_PYTHON),
 		OPT_BIT(0 , "tcl",  &format.quote_style,
 			N_("quote placeholders suitably for Tcl"), QUOTE_TCL),
+		OPT_BOOL(0, "omit-empty",  &omit_empty,
+			N_("do not output a newline after empty formatted refs")),
 
 		OPT_GROUP(""),
 		OPT_INTEGER( 0 , "count", &maxcount, N_("show only <n> matched refs")),
@@ -88,7 +90,8 @@ int cmd_for_each_ref(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
 		if (format_ref_array_item(array.items[i], &format, &output, &err))
 			die("%s", err.buf);
 		fwrite(output.buf, 1, output.len, stdout);
-		putchar('\n');
+		if (output.len || !omit_empty)
+			putchar('\n');
 	}
 
 	strbuf_release(&err);