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From: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
To: Lucas Seiki Oshiro <lucasseikioshiro@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, karthik.188@gmail.com, shyamthakkar001@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [GSoC] Project Proposal: Machine-Readable Repository Information Query Tool
Date: Fri, 4 Apr 2025 11:09:50 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Z--h3rhY5XAERVHm@pks.im> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BC393559-6A33-447D-9AE8-BB2D9D0BC0D6@gmail.com>

On Thu, Apr 03, 2025 at 03:02:51PM -0300, Lucas Seiki Oshiro wrote:
> > This kind of information is exposed via git-rev-parse(1) already, see
> > the section "Options for Files".
> 
> Thanks for your clarification! But still, I was discussing with people
> here at my university who deals directly with research on FLOSS
> repositories, is it worth to find other uses cases for this new command?

It doesn't hurt to think about additional usecases, sure. But one of the
things that I want to caution against is that we now create the next
"grab bag" of unrelated features under a common name. After all, we are
trying to fix exactly this state in git-rev-parse(1). So the intent of
the command should be clearly defined to avoid this.

Patrick

  reply	other threads:[~2025-04-04  9:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2025-04-02 18:22 [GSoC] Project Proposal: Machine-Readable Repository Information Query Tool Lucas Seiki Oshiro
2025-04-03 10:14 ` Patrick Steinhardt
2025-04-03 18:02   ` Lucas Seiki Oshiro
2025-04-04  9:09     ` Patrick Steinhardt [this message]
2025-04-04 15:01       ` Lucas Seiki Oshiro

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