Re: Git in GSoC 2025

From: Oswald Buddenhagen <oswald.buddenhagen@gmx.de>
Date: Jan 21, 2025, 11:47 UTC
Message-ID: <Z4-JQp9uOP8ALT7R@ugly>
In-Reply-To: <Z432QXJb_TfzNBa2@pks.im>

On Mon, Jan 20, 2025 at 08:07:53AM +0100, Patrick Steinhardt wrote:

>  - Create a new command to query repository-level information,

>    potentially making it machine-readable via for example JSON.
>

only optionally, please. the current positional output (each line corresponds to the respective query command) is much easier to deal with in shell scripts.

>    This
>    would move such information out of git-rev-parse(1), which is a
>    somewhat weird home for it. It's something I have been thinking
>    about quite a bit,

> but it wasn't ever discussed to the best of my knowledge.
>

that depends on what level of engagement counts as "discussed". https://lore.kernel.org/git/ZZbFGTkM8aR7MXQu@tanuki/

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