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From: Martin Langhoff <martin.langhoff@gmail.com>
To: "brian m. carlson" <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>,
	Jeff King <peff@peff.net>,
	Martin Langhoff <martin.langhoff@gmail.com>,
	Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Structured (ie: json) output for query commands?
Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2021 19:27:40 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CACPiFCLAm+e_JRc=eAt_rqwCWASqr19nXdk0zWqLbTEgELL81w@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YNzR5ZZDTfcN2Q+s@camp.crustytoothpaste.net>

On Wed, Jun 30, 2021 at 4:20 PM brian m. carlson
<sandals@crustytoothpaste.net> wrote:
> I'm personally fine with the ad-hoc approach we use now, which is
> actually very convenient to script and, in my view, not to terrible to
> parse in other tools and languages.  Your mileage may vary, though.

It's of one piece with the Unix tradition that gave us Perl. That's
both a blessing and a curse.

Outputting fields, escapes, etc and the ability to use xpath to
extract, manipulate and query specific data is... very useful. There's
a hard tradeoff with utf-8, and any attempt at papering over that -
iconv conversions, etc – will inevitably munge data in some cases.

hmmm,


m
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  reply	other threads:[~2021-06-30 23:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <CACPiFC++fG-WL8uvTkiydf3wD8TY6dStVpuLcKA9cX_EnwoHGA@mail.gmail.com>
2021-06-30 17:00 ` Structured (ie: json) output for query commands? Martin Langhoff
2021-06-30 17:59   ` Jeff King
2021-06-30 18:20     ` Martin Langhoff
2021-07-01 15:47       ` Jeff King
2021-06-30 20:19     ` brian m. carlson
2021-06-30 23:27       ` Martin Langhoff [this message]
2021-07-01 16:00       ` Jeff King
2021-07-01 21:18         ` brian m. carlson
2021-07-01 21:48           ` Jeff King
2021-07-02 13:13           ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-07-01  8:18   ` Han-Wen Nienhuys

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