Re: ps/fetch-output-format (was: What's cooking in git.git (May 2023, #02; Fri, 5))

From: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Date: May 8, 2023, 07:31 UTC
Message-ID: <ZFilVVv88qhZhL-d@ncase>
In-Reply-To: <xmqqmt2ibcq2.fsf@gitster.g>

On Fri, May 05, 2023 at 04:05:57PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:

Show 15 quoted lines

> * ps/fetch-output-format (2023-05-03) 8 commits
>  - fetch: introduce machine-parseable "porcelain" output format
>  - fetch: move option related variables into main function
>  - fetch: move display format parsing into main function
>  - fetch: introduce `display_format` enum
>  - fetch: fix missing from-reference when fetching HEAD:foo
>  - fetch: add a test to exercise invalid output formats
>  - fetch: split out tests for output format
>  - fetch: fix `--no-recurse-submodules` with multi-remote fetches
> 
>  "git fetch" learned the "--output-format" option that emits what it
>  did in a machine-parseable format.
> 
>  Will merge to 'next'?
>  source: <cover.1683113177.git.ps@pks.im>

Note that the description isn't accurate anymore: v3 of the patch series has changed the new option from `--output-format` to `--porcelain`. With that change I'd also feel more comfortable if the new iteration had at least one review before merging to `next`.

Patrick