From: Martin Langhoff Date: Sat, 10 Apr 2010 20:31:55 GMT Subject: Re: More git status --porcelain lossage Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <20100410194154.GB28768@thyrsus.com> On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 3:41 PM, Eric Raymond wrote: >> 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 -- martin.langhoff@gmail.com martin@laptop.org -- School Server Architect - ask interesting questions - don't get distracted with shiny stuff - working code first - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff