On Mon, Apr 24, 2017 at 5:28 AM, Duy Nguyen <pclouds@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, Apr 24, 2017 at 3:33 PM, shawn wilson <ag4ve.us@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Late to the party, but I too would also like json format output (mainly so I >> could pipe stuff to jq instead of looking at the man page for which %thing >> I'm looking for). That said, it's not at the PR level of want for me. >> >> OTOH, format=xml would be even more handy IMHO... Which I see has hit both >> SO and this ml in the past. Either way /some/ machine output would be a good >> thing :) > > Personally I'd rather avoid linking to another library just for > json/xml formatting. libgit2 would be a great place to have > functionality like this and it looks like you don't even have to touch > C [1] to do that. > > [1] https://gist.github.com/m1el/42472327b4be382b02eb Heh, well, I guess if it's like that (simple), I don't really care :) I was under the impression (no idea why) that it was limited to C or java (and friends). Given this means I don't have to figure out someone's json structure or refer to an xsd, I'll live w/ this.