Re: Feature request: --format=json

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Apr 18, 2017, 00:38 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqq60i2im72.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <CAJgfmqW4ck9SwBrT_Z7bTOzM2zG==_ONUhTfhbLJtRu=vT+wyg@mail.gmail.com>

"Fred .Flintstone" <eldmannen@gmail.com> writes:

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> So I would either have to do:
> git rev-list --all
> Then iterate over each line and do git-cat-file commit <commit-id>.
>
> Or do:
> git rev-list --all | git cat-file --batch
>
> If I do it in a batch, then it will be tricky to reliably parse since
> I don't know when the message body ends and when the next commit
> starts.
>
> JSON output would have been very handy.

I am somewhat puzzled. I thought that you were trying to come up with a way to produce JSON output and people are trying to help you by pointing out tools that you can use for that.