Hi Joey,

Joey Hess wrote[1]:

> Commit c334b87b30c1464a1ab563fe1fb8de5eaf0e5bac caused a reversion in
> git-cat-file --batch. 
>
> With an older version:
>
> joey@gnu:~/tmp/rrr>git cat-file --batch
> :file name
> e69de29bb2d1d6434b8b29ae775ad8c2e48c5391 blob 0
>
> With the new version:
>
> joey@wren:~/tmp/r>git cat-file --batch
> :file name
> :file missing
>
> This has broken git-annex's support for operating on files/directories
> containing whitespace. I cannot see a way to query such a filename using
> the new interface.

Oh dear.  Luckily you caught this before the final 1.8.4 release.  I
wonder if we should just revert c334b87b (cat-file: split --batch
input lines on whitespace, 2013-07-11) for now.

Thanks,
Jonathan

[1] http://bugs.debian.org/718517
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