On 3/26/2018 11:26 PM, Ramsay Jones wrote:
On 26/03/18 18:04, Junio C Hamano wrote:
Ramsay Jones <ramsay@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
[...]
I must confess to not having given any thought to the wider
implications of the code. I don't really know what this code
is going to be used for. [Although I did shudder when I read
some mention of a 'universal interchange format' - I still
have nightmares about XML :-D ]
[...]
My current goals are to add telemetry in a friendly way and
have events written in JSON to some audit destination.
Something like:
{ "argv":["./git","status"],
"pid":84941,
"exit-code":0,
"elapsed-time":0.011121,
"version":"2.16.2.5.g71445db.dirty",
... }
Later, we could add a JSON formatter to a command like "status"
and then do things like:
$ git status --json | python '... json.load ...'
and eliminate the need to write custom parsers for normal
or porcelain formats. There are other commands that could
be similarly adapted and save callers a lot of screen-scraping
code. But that is later.
Thanks,
Jeff
