Re: Feature request: --format=json

From: Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com>
Date: Apr 24, 2017, 09:28 UTC
Message-ID: <CACsJy8DPtfyAAX_cmRLib=eKPMWnew5CsYDV6V3xTTiEg1Kksg@mail.gmail.com>
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On Mon, Apr 24, 2017 at 3:33 PM, shawn wilson <ag4ve.us@gmail.com> wrote:

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> Late to the party, but I too would also like json format output (mainly so I
> could pipe stuff to jq instead of looking at the man page for which %thing
> I'm looking for). That said, it's not at the PR level of want for me.
>
> OTOH, format=xml would be even more handy IMHO... Which I see has hit both
> SO and this ml in the past. Either way /some/ machine output would be a good
> thing :)

Personally I'd rather avoid linking to another library just for json/xml formatting. libgit2 would be a great place to have functionality like this and it looks like you don't even have to touch C [1] to do that.

[1] https://gist.github.com/m1el/42472327b4be382b02eb

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Duy