Howdy git folk, I want to revive the discussion on JSON output. I see a discussion in 2021 about it, but it didnt come to a resolution. That discussion was talking about adding a --json flag. I have a slightly different approach. I see online that many people have tried to make various hacks to convert git output into JSON, but they all lack completeness, especially with log messages with arbitrary text. I believe the best and most correct way to get JSON output from git is to add it as a new format to the pretty option. Then, it would be easy to pipe the output into something like jq to parse the JSON. Trying to convert git's output into JSON is a losing proposition. You've already lost some of the context of the output by getting it out of the git program itself. A pretty option would provide a standard way to get correct JSON output, with git's code handling the weird corner cases. What do y'all think? Cheers, Ron Ziroby Romero
