Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > All of which (and more) would also be addressed in an obvious way by > just supporting --format as I suggested in > https://lore.kernel.org/git/211115.86o86lqe3c.gmgdl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/; > don't you think that's a better approach? That is what I would call over-engineering that I would rather not to have in low level plumbing. I am all for making _parsing_ the output from the tool easier by scripts; I am not interested in eliminating the _output_ by scripts. They should capture and format the pieces we output in any way they want. So, no, I do not think it is a better approach at all.
