Re: [PATCH 4/5] interpret-trailers: add an option to normalize output

> On Thu, Aug 10, 2017 at 11:06:40PM +0200, Christian Couder wrote:
> 
>>>> Related to this, I wonder if people might want to "normalize" in
>>>> different ways later. If that happens, we might regret having called
>>>> this option "--normalize" instead of "--one-per-line" for example.
>>>
>>> What is normal?
>>>
>>> Maybe --style=[one-line, wrapped:72, rfc, json, xml, ...]
>>> then?
>>
>> Yeah, we could go there right now (using perhaps "--pretty" or
>> "--format" instead of "--style", so that we are more consistent with
>> other commands), but on the other hand we don't know yet if the other
>> formats will really be needed.
> 
> But some of those things are not 1:1 mappings with normalization.  For
> instance, --json presumably implies --only-trailers. Or are we proposing
> to break the whole commit message down into components and output it all
> as json?