Re: [GSoC RFC PATCH v4 0/4] repo: add new command for retrieving repository info

From: Oswald Buddenhagen <oswald.buddenhagen@gmx.de>
Date: Jul 17, 2025, 10:25 UTC
Message-ID: <aHjPf2so4BzQkYRO@ugly>
In-Reply-To: <xmqqecuhiekv.fsf@gitster.g>

On Tue, Jul 15, 2025 at 09:49:52AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:

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>Oswald Buddenhagen <oswald.buddenhagen@gmx.de> writes:
>> the obvious followup idea would then be "meta", but that suggests 
>> that
>> it isn't only a read-only command, which i think it is supposed to
>> remain?
>
>"git repository query"
>"git repository stat"
>...?
>

yes, but one could also add "git repository set" or some such. as such symmetry is reasonable to expect, people might be confused by its absence. an obviously read-only command like "query" would preclude this.

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