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Re: [PATCH 0/4] repo: add support for path-related fields

From
Lucas Seiki Oshiro <lucasseikioshiro@gmail.com>
Date
Mar 1, 2026, 19:49 UTC
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> Option 1 feels like the cleanest approach.
> Even though it means git-repo-info can't return both a relative and
> absolute path in the exact same call, it keeps the API highly predictable
> for scripting without bloating the key namespace (which Option 3 would do).

Yeah. I think that in the future most of them will be path.*, and 3 would double them...

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Message 14 of 26 in “repo: add support for path-related fields”
  1. 0/4 repo: add support for path-related fieldsLucas Seiki Oshiro, Feb 28, 2026
  2. 1/4 rev-parse: prepend `path_` to path-related enumsLucas Seiki Oshiro, Feb 28, 2026
  3. 2/4 path: add new function strbuf_add_pathLucas Seiki Oshiro, Feb 28, 2026
  4. 3/4 repo: add the --format-path flagLucas Seiki Oshiro, Feb 28, 2026
  5. 4/4 repo: add the field path.toplevelLucas Seiki Oshiro, Feb 28, 2026
  6. Tian YuchenMar 1, 2026
  7. Lucas Seiki OshiroMar 1, 2026
  8. Tian YuchenMar 2, 2026
  9. JAYATHEERTH KMar 1, 2026
  10. Ayush JhaMar 1, 2026
  11. JAYATHEERTH KMar 1, 2026
  12. Lucas Seiki OshiroMar 1, 2026
  13. Ayush JhaMar 3, 2026
  14. Lucas Seiki OshiroMar 1, 2026
  15. Phillip WoodMar 1, 2026
  16. Lucas Seiki OshiroMar 1, 2026
  17. brian m. carlsonMar 1, 2026
  18. Junio C HamanoMar 2, 2026
  19. Tian YuchenMar 2, 2026
  20. Junio C HamanoMar 2, 2026
  21. JAYATHEERTH KMar 3, 2026
  22. Tian YuchenMar 3, 2026
  23. JAYATHEERTH KMar 3, 2026
  24. Tian YuchenMar 3, 2026
  25. JAYATHEERTH KMar 3, 2026
  26. Lucas Seiki OshiroMar 8, 2026

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