Re: [RFE] Add JSON output to git log commands

From: D. Ben Knoble <ben.knoble@gmail.com>
Date: Aug 17, 2025, 21:28 UTC
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On Sun, Aug 17, 2025 at 5:09 PM Kristoffer Haugsbakk <kristofferhaugsbakk@fastmail.com> wrote:

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> On Sun, Aug 17, 2025, at 22:17, Ron Ziroby Romero wrote:
> > I would like to add JSON output to the git log command.
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> Previously: https://lore.kernel.org/git/CAGW8g7=21pPAgCixjpayEvmw_ns-hcB4e59NP476TKtCRXHPXQ@mail.gmail.com/

In particular, I would guess that deciding how to handle "raw bytes" (e.g., paths that are not necessarily UTF-8 strings) is important. JSON uses Unicode characters:

     A string is a sequence of zero or more Unicode characters,
wrapped in double quotes, using backslash escapes. A character is
represented as a single character string. A string is very much like a
C or Java string.

https://www.json.org/json-en.html

(even though the railroad diagram says "codepoints"; I find the whole thing a bit muddy—what exactly is representable in JSON strings?

    Excepting a few encoding details, that completely describes the language.

??? which details?)

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D. Ben Knoble