On Fri, Jun 21, 2019 at 08:10:58AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Duy Nguyen <pclouds@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > > > Considering the amount of code to output these, supporting multiple > > formats would be a nightmare. I may be ok with versioning the output > > so the tool know what format they need to deal with, but I'd rather > > support just one version. For third parties wanting to dig deep, I > > think libgit2 would be a much better fit. > > Yeah, I think starting with --debug=json (or --debug-json) until we > see some stability in the output and got comfortable to the idea of > "version X" to mean what we output at that point, and then renaming > it to "--json" with "version: 1" in the output stream so that third > party can use it (and interpret it according to version 1 rules) is > the way to go. Third-party tools are welcome to read --debug-json > output as an early-adoption practice waiting for the real thing, but > we do not want to be locked into a schema too eary before we are > ready. I should have read the whole thread before responding. I made a similar comment to Dscho, so I guess that is now two of us. :) -Peff
