From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mon, 08 Jul 2019 17:58:50 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 05/10] split-index.c: dump "link" extension as json
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In-Reply-To: <CACsJy8CZZAkcuN_hqp6YmMkhKs0ON6b-+Cyo+Q+Jk4zFh0Ve7w@mail.gmail.com>

Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com> writes:

> The command is to dump .git/index, not the shared one. And since this
> is not a split index test, rather a (quite low-level) json dump test,
> I did not bother to also dump the shared index, which should look like
> a regular one. Producing a unified view in json might not be easy with
> the current code because it's tied to file reading code, nearly stream
> out json as we read the file, and split-index requires a post
> processing step. I could contribute a python script or something to
> combine shared/main index together. That way you can still see the
> combined one, but we don't have to add/maintain more C code.

Well, such a post-processing is something external scripts shine at
and exporting the internal data in json format is exactly to support
these scripts, so it may make a good first test case ;-)