From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Eric Raymond Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH 2/3] add a library of code for producing structured output Date: Sun, 11 Apr 2010 16:57:04 -0400 Organization: Eric Conspiracy Secret Labs Message-ID: <20100411205704.GA16098@thyrsus.com> References: <20100411112928.80010.1786.julian@quantumfyre.co.uk> <20100411113733.80010.3767.julian@quantumfyre.co.uk> <7vy6gtonwt.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> <91d4c9c4ecdd32166bedb6dc0bd007d6@212.159.54.234> Reply-To: esr@thyrsus.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Jakub Narebski , Junio C Hamano , git@vger.kernel.org To: Julian Phillips X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sun Apr 11 22:57:21 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 1O14DW-0002bO-0L for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Sun, 11 Apr 2010 22:57:18 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752885Ab0DKU5I (ORCPT ); Sun, 11 Apr 2010 16:57:08 -0400 Received: from static-71-162-243-5.phlapa.fios.verizon.net ([71.162.243.5]:38737 "EHLO snark.thyrsus.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752702Ab0DKU5H (ORCPT ); Sun, 11 Apr 2010 16:57:07 -0400 Received: by snark.thyrsus.com (Postfix, from userid 23) id D9F6220CD3D; Sun, 11 Apr 2010 16:57:04 -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: Julian Phillips : > That should be much easier. Though actually I am fairly close to getting > _all_ output from ls-tree going through the output library ... (i.e. even > the normal no-option output). I don't know what people's opinion on this > approach is, but I thought it was worth a try anyway. I make encouraging noises in your direction. This approach sounds like an orthogonality and consistency win. -- Eric S. Raymond