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Re: exporting git commands in parsable format for constructing language-specific API for git CLI

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Santiago Torres Arias <santiago@nyu.edu>
Date
Mar 28, 2021, 23:07 UTC
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On Sat, Mar 27, 2021 at 01:42:09AM +0100, ama bamo wrote:
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> While using git commands in my applications and reimplementing the
> same stuff i found out i can just parse git docs then generate
> structures and classes based on that; i have done similiar for
> wordpress and its `wp-cli`, for example see:
> https://github.com/bukowa/gowpcli/tree/master/generated
> 
> But `wp-cli` allows exporting all of the commands in a json format,
> see: https://github.com/bukowa/gowpcli/blob/master/generate/dump.json

I'm not entirely sure if something like this exists in git, and I'm alsot unsure of what exactly is the benefit of doing so vs an actual API (e.g., git2go[1]). Could you help us by elaborating what this is meant to achieve? Maybe that way we can figure out if something exists...

Cheers! -Santiago

[1] https://github.com/libgit2/git2go
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  1. ama bamoMar 27, 2021
  2. Santiago Torres AriasMar 28, 2021
  3. ama bamoApr 7, 2021
  4. Junio C HamanoApr 7, 2021

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