From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2016 18:23:45 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5] git check-ref-format --stdin --report-errors
Message-ID: <xmqqlgvbpyku.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <561c0338-66cd-f806-7b3b-b422f98a1564@alum.mit.edu>

Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu> writes:

> Especially given that the output is not especially machine-readable, it
> might be more consistent with other commands to call the new feature
> `--verbose` rather than `--report-errors`.

Don't we instead want to structure the output to be machine-readable
instead, given that check-ref-format is a very low level plumbing
command that is primarily meant for scriptors?