From: Eric Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com>
To: Simon <turner25@gmail.com>
Cc: Eric Raymond <esr@snark.thyrsus.com>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: More git status --porcelain lossage
Date: Sat, 10 Apr 2010 15:30:39 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100410193039.GA28768@thyrsus.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <l2k5f14cf5e1004101148h5cf8dc4bm1836cf1c5fc8abfb@mail.gmail.com>
Simon <turner25@gmail.com>:
> Why not use an XML output?
> Plain text is easier to parse, but XML may give this extra durability
> you are looking for?
Because XML is awfully heavyewight, and XML parsers tend to be slow.
If we were going to buld on a metaprotocol, JSON would be better. IMHO.
--
<a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-04-10 19:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-04-09 19:06 More git status --porcelain lossage Eric Raymond
2010-04-09 19:09 ` Eric Raymond
2010-04-09 19:22 ` Jakub Narebski
2010-04-09 19:50 ` Eric Raymond
2010-04-10 4:12 ` Jeff King
2010-04-10 4:14 ` Jeff King
2010-04-10 18:48 ` Simon
2010-04-10 19:01 ` Jakub Narebski
2010-04-10 19:41 ` Eric Raymond
2010-04-10 20:31 ` Martin Langhoff
2010-04-10 22:28 ` Paolo Bonzini
2010-04-10 23:06 ` Eric Raymond
2010-04-11 11:04 ` David Aguilar
2010-04-10 21:21 ` Jakub Narebski
2010-04-10 22:57 ` Eric Raymond
2010-04-10 19:30 ` Eric Raymond [this message]
2010-04-10 19:39 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2010-04-10 21:24 ` Simon
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