Structured (ie: json) output for query commands?

From: Martin Langhoff <martin.langhoff@gmail.com>
Date: Jun 30, 2021, 17:00 UTC
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Hi Git Gang,

I'm used to automating git by parsing stuff in Unix shell style. But the golden days that gave us Perl are well behind us.

Before I write (unreliable, leaky, likely buggy) text parsing bits one more time, has git grown formatted output? I'm aware of fmt and friends, I'm thinking of something that handles escaping, nested data structures, etc.

Something like "git shortlog --json".

Have there been discussions? Patches? (I don't spot anything in what's cooking).

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