Re: [GSoC RFC PATCH 0/5] repo-info: add new command for retrieving repository info

From: Karthik Nayak <karthik.188@gmail.com>
Date: Jun 11, 2025, 13:17 UTC
Message-ID: <CAOLa=ZQrJ06Se1+kZjCa2Mkhv7Q5gh8ZgtLh0usqZqTBPcVxSg@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20250610152117.14826-1-lucasseikioshiro@gmail.com>

Lucas Seiki Oshiro <lucasseikioshiro@gmail.com> writes:

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> ## Feedback
>
> I would like to ask for your feedback on this proprosal, specially:
>
> - on deciding if the JSON and linewise plaintext formats are the really the best,
>   or if I should consider others (e.g. gitconfig syntax, NUL-terminated, etc)
>
> - on deciding how the fields will be specified. This "<category>.<format>" was
>   a first idea based on the JSON structure
>
> - about the JSON schema
>
> - about information that may be nice to include in the output of this command,
>   even if they are not currently retrieved by `rev-parse`
>

One thing I'd also like to see is some thought/documentation of what kind of information should go into this command and what shouldn't. For e.g. should number of references in a repo be part of this command, or the `git refs` command. More broadly, which subsystem information should be exposed via `git repo-info` and how do we draw that line.

Mostly to not create a new `git rev-parse` alternative.

> Thanks!
>

I've also gone ahead and reviewed the patches individually and left some comments.

- Karthik