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Re: More git status --porcelain lossage

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Martin Langhoff <martin.langhoff@gmail.com>
Date
Apr 10, 2010, 20:31 UTC
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On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 3:41 PM, Eric Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com> wrote:
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>> I could understand providing JSON format, specified using --json
>> option.
>
> You know, that's actually an interesting idea.  I mentioned it
> previously as the not-XML if we want to build on a metaprotocol;

One issue is that there's no stream-parser JSON implementations that I'm aware of.

Everthing I've seen is in-memory, therefore apt only for memory-bound operations. Not sure if all commands with -z output options can be assumed to produce bound-sized datasets.

cheers,
martin
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