Re: Feature request: --format=json

From: shawn wilson <ag4ve.us@gmail.com>
Date: Apr 24, 2017, 11:04 UTC
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On Mon, Apr 24, 2017 at 5:28 AM, Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Mon, Apr 24, 2017 at 3:33 PM, shawn wilson <ag4ve.us@gmail.com> wrote:
>> 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

Heh, well, I guess if it's like that (simple), I don't really care :) I was under the impression (no idea why) that it was limited to C or java (and friends). Given this means I don't have to figure out someone's json structure or refer to an xsd, I'll live w/ this.