Re: [GSoC RFC PATCH v4 2/4] repo: add the field references.format

From: Lucas Seiki Oshiro <lucasseikioshiro@gmail.com>
Date: Jul 18, 2025, 20:26 UTC
Message-ID: <6ED935E8-05CE-4155-B56C-A113926915E6@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <oir6mpubnuplnjatdhlyljslakmh72wlax4afuqnsiyob65xfh@5rft32ln2zvk>

> So maybe we have three different output modes for `--format=<mode>`:
> `user` (default), `keyvalue`, and `nul`?

What about `porcelain` (default), `keyvalue` and `null` (being `-z` an alias for this last one)?

> For `git repo info`, I'm not entirely certain how the default
> user-friendly mode would/should differ from the key-value one

Even for the "survey" part, would it be useful to have a key-value and another human-readable format?

Another thing that I was thinking (as a future feature): what about using by default the user-friendly format and using the null-terminated format when piping the output to another command (like git-diff does with the colors)?

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