From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Eric Raymond Subject: Re: More git status --porcelain lossage Date: Sat, 10 Apr 2010 15:30:39 -0400 Organization: Eric Conspiracy Secret Labs Message-ID: <20100410193039.GA28768@thyrsus.com> References: <20100409190601.47B37475FEF@snark.thyrsus.com> Reply-To: esr@thyrsus.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Eric Raymond , git@vger.kernel.org To: Simon X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sat Apr 10 21:30:47 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1O0gOD-0005js-Om for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Sat, 10 Apr 2010 21:30:46 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751420Ab0DJTak (ORCPT ); Sat, 10 Apr 2010 15:30:40 -0400 Received: from static-71-162-243-5.phlapa.fios.verizon.net ([71.162.243.5]:48081 "EHLO snark.thyrsus.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751177Ab0DJTak (ORCPT ); Sat, 10 Apr 2010 15:30:40 -0400 Received: by snark.thyrsus.com (Postfix, from userid 23) id 8438D20CBBC; Sat, 10 Apr 2010 15:30:39 -0400 (EDT) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-Eric-Conspiracy: There is no conspiracy User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Simon : > 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. -- Eric S. Raymond