Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@xxxxxxxxx> writes: >> That is what I would call over-engineering that I would rather not >> to have in low level plumbing. >> ... > We've got --format for for-each-ref and family (also branch etc.), and > for the "log" family. But I didn't comment on them. ls-tree is a lot lower-level plumbing where --format does not belong in my mind.