Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > 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. There is a lot more practical reason why I'd prefer a less flexible and good enough interface. I can see, without coding it myself but from mere memory of how the code looked like, how such a "we allow you to choose which field to include, but you do not get to choose the order of fields or any other string in the output" can be done with minimum disruption to the existing code and without introducing a bug. On the other hand, I am fairly certain that anything more flexible than that will risk new bugs involved in any large shuffling of the code, which I am getting tired of. So there.
