Re: [GSoC] Project Proposal: Machine-Readable Repository Information Query Tool

From: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Date: Apr 4, 2025, 09:09 UTC
Message-ID: <Z--h3rhY5XAERVHm@pks.im>
In-Reply-To: <BC393559-6A33-447D-9AE8-BB2D9D0BC0D6@gmail.com>

On Thu, Apr 03, 2025 at 03:02:51PM -0300, Lucas Seiki Oshiro wrote:

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> > This kind of information is exposed via git-rev-parse(1) already, see
> > the section "Options for Files".
> 
> Thanks for your clarification! But still, I was discussing with people
> here at my university who deals directly with research on FLOSS
> repositories, is it worth to find other uses cases for this new command?

It doesn't hurt to think about additional usecases, sure. But one of the things that I want to caution against is that we now create the next "grab bag" of unrelated features under a common name. After all, we are trying to fix exactly this state in git-rev-parse(1). So the intent of the command should be clearly defined to avoid this.

Patrick