Re: [PATCH v6 6/7] builtin/repo: add keyvalue and nul format for structure stats

From: Lucas Seiki Oshiro <lucasseikioshiro@gmail.com>
Date: Oct 22, 2025, 20:34 UTC
Message-ID: <A076B823-F619-435F-9A7D-40C6D60254D1@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20251021182601.2687284-7-jltobler@gmail.com>

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> All repository structure stats are outputted in a human-friendly table
> form. This format is not suitable for machine parsing. Add a --format
> option that supports three output modes: `table`, `keyvalue`, and `nul`.
> The `table` mode is the default format and prints the same table output
> as before.

Now I'm thinking... What about making --format a flag for git-repo, working for both git-repo-info and git-repo-structure? It doesn't seem to be hard to make git-repo-info compatible with your table format and it looks to me that it would make git-repo more consistent.

I'm also wondering if git-repo-info use this table format by default. git-repo-info and git-repo-structure are completely different under the hood, but their interface are very similar and it seems to be that they could be more closer to each other.

> "git repo info [--format=(keyvalue|nul)] [-z] [<key>...]",
> - "git repo structure",
> + "git repo structure [--format=(table|keyvalue|nul)]",

Do you intend to add a key parameter like in git-repo-info? This way, we could run:

  git repo structure references.branches.count references.tags.count

and it would return only the branch and tag count.