Re: [GSoC RFC PATCH 0/5] repo-info: add new command for retrieving repository info
On Tue, Jun 10, 2025, at 17:21, Lucas Seiki Oshiro wrote:
Show 11 quoted lines
> ## Motivation
>
> Currently, `git rev-parse` covers a wide range of functionality not directly
> related to parsing revisions, as its name says. Over time, many features like
> parsing datestrings, options, paths, and others were added to it because
> there wasn't a more appropriated command to place them.
>
> This way, many of these features would be better placed in new and dedicated
> commands. This kind of movement had other precedents in Git, for example, `git
> switch` and `git restore` were created after `git checkout` became too
> overloaded.
This is something I’ve wanted. Thanks for starting the work.
--
Kristoffer Haugsbakk