From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.2 (2018-09-13) on dcvr.yhbt.net X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-ASN: AS31976 209.132.180.0/23 X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.1 required=3.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED, DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_HI,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_NONE shortcircuit=no autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.2 Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by dcvr.yhbt.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0D82E1F462 for ; Thu, 20 Jun 2019 04:00:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1725872AbfFTEAj (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 Jun 2019 00:00:39 -0400 Received: from pb-smtp1.pobox.com ([64.147.108.70]:61066 "EHLO pb-smtp1.pobox.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1725857AbfFTEAj (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 Jun 2019 00:00:39 -0400 Received: from pb-smtp1.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by pb-smtp1.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id E236A168CD3; Thu, 20 Jun 2019 00:00:36 -0400 (EDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=pobox.com; h=from:to:cc :subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; s=sasl; bh=86XflHZpxyrb fF8RfnvPi7ipL+4=; b=myQYlV8BNUVYgFfoK/GhVGrH+mQcTnKL4KntuBI8YJO/ jUa8JaCf3fcnWPfTQdqqEWbIC2eR4DVu7Tq8cAAjhey4oLM3pVcA/cGNAqm+zen1 X4N+jkrkIGVD7PDOgFdtFXvcnibpCkh8MRqZANFnNWiBNcwS+/QVjCvSlCeXLQ4= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=pobox.com; h=from:to:cc :subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; q=dns; s=sasl; b=YoRhaF 0mO4Os1pMNkDlAs2q5Z7ibwUB85RJlOtEH0B5BNfhp48Uh+rRZxHSXM/iysDdPFB i4WsFkbJuc5EEIgIDW3ea55qzg8Rlw0G2iDQ6ggsij2hqNBv5G8yRpfGgB4TaSQY mblxWQkGmKphwSNqBcw5jn7qVgSy/PLfwbcqQ= Received: from pb-smtp1.nyi.icgroup.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by pb-smtp1.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id D9438168CD2; Thu, 20 Jun 2019 00:00:36 -0400 (EDT) Received: from pobox.com (unknown [34.76.80.147]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pb-smtp1.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 4B8A4168CD1; Thu, 20 Jun 2019 00:00:35 -0400 (EDT) From: Junio C Hamano To: =?utf-8?B?Tmd1eeG7hW4gVGjDoWkgTmfhu41j?= Duy Cc: git@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/8] Add 'ls-files --json' to dump the index in json References: <20190619095858.30124-1-pclouds@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2019 21:00:34 -0700 In-Reply-To: <20190619095858.30124-1-pclouds@gmail.com> (=?utf-8?B?Ik5n?= =?utf-8?B?dXnhu4VuIFRow6FpIE5n4buNYw==?= Duy"'s message of "Wed, 19 Jun 2019 16:58:50 +0700") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.2 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 X-Pobox-Relay-ID: F4DA41D4-930F-11E9-9904-46F8B7964D18-77302942!pb-smtp1.pobox.com Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Nguy=E1=BB=85n Th=C3=A1i Ng=E1=BB=8Dc Duy writes: > This is probably just my itch. Every time I have to do something with > the index, I need to add a little bit code here, a little bit there to > get a better "view" of the index. ;-) =20 JSON is not particularly my cup-of-tea but it is better than many other things exactly for one reason (everybody and their dog have heard of it), and certainly is much superiour than inventing our own ad-hoc format. =20 Thanks for working on this (I do not expect I would see an immediate need for this myself, though).