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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: ama bamo <pythoncontrol@gmail.com>
Cc: Santiago Torres Arias <santiago@nyu.edu>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: exporting git commands in parsable format for constructing language-specific API for git CLI
Date: Wed, 07 Apr 2021 13:42:23 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqq4kghzv0w.fsf@gitster.g> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJxd1DNB=OGgNkLHg=2TpQxgWKp1dTcg5vvFXG7+2MS0KyXjJA@mail.gmail.com> (ama bamo's message of "Wed, 7 Apr 2021 20:18:31 +0200")

ama bamo <pythoncontrol@gmail.com> writes:

> By following the definition of CLI and API; the CLI is human readable
> while the API is machine readable. If we were able to expose CLI
> in a machine-readable format then would it be an API?

Both input and output for Porcelain commands are subject to change
to improve the end user experience for humans, which may break
scripts that hardcodes the assumption of either the input or the
output at one version of Git.

So no, I wouldn't call that an API.

      reply	other threads:[~2021-04-07 20:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-03-27  0:42 exporting git commands in parsable format for constructing language-specific API for git CLI ama bamo
2021-03-28 23:07 ` Santiago Torres Arias
2021-04-07 18:18   ` ama bamo
2021-04-07 20:42     ` Junio C Hamano [this message]

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