From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Martin Langhoff Subject: Re: More git status --porcelain lossage Date: Sat, 10 Apr 2010 16:31:55 -0400 Message-ID: References: <20100409190601.47B37475FEF@snark.thyrsus.com> <20100410194154.GB28768@thyrsus.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: Jakub Narebski , Simon , Eric Raymond , git@vger.kernel.org To: esr@thyrsus.com X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sat Apr 10 22:32:33 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 1O0hM0-0002vV-Va for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Sat, 10 Apr 2010 22:32:33 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751191Ab0DJUcQ convert rfc822-to-quoted-printable (ORCPT ); Sat, 10 Apr 2010 16:32:16 -0400 Received: from mail-iw0-f197.google.com ([209.85.223.197]:39742 "EHLO mail-iw0-f197.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750829Ab0DJUcP convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Sat, 10 Apr 2010 16:32:15 -0400 Received: by iwn35 with SMTP id 35so419043iwn.21 for ; Sat, 10 Apr 2010 13:32:15 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :from:date:received:message-id:subject:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=JCnyU7aTo+1e63Epn8jfBJK9KGxSQuv0ceDobi6vkD0=; b=ORMiw8v+GQHMO0c/1dXH4thHK0SbdongkhBubqqns+5FQ+SXOoUub4h+GID6y3s4l2 6nPjKzItrJu7U5mjOhYfcdoYRsOgaC4NZ7P2MZVibq+5FZx7B7rka7+5djHsKMgC/7eE Go5kEKQnZBdfBH3punghwuSiGIwy1ARyl9g3A= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=sCixn2k55xMoI4F8TC0o1zLhvk2TF8U2BqFFJGpSnw4KI7dP5BqmjKLrzgttIAmTBu pM/lK5o/89yAWzaok7JITqCP/i4rPZPSrpQVdox33XooGE+7qPe7BZvpR+38dfv7qbNi zSDoVft66qHyS5Mq+NKH2A7A6QZtsCFFi0D+E= Received: by 10.231.207.67 with HTTP; Sat, 10 Apr 2010 13:31:55 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20100410194154.GB28768@thyrsus.com> Received: by 10.231.169.145 with SMTP id z17mr847914iby.83.1270931535188; Sat, 10 Apr 2010 13:32:15 -0700 (PDT) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 3:41 PM, Eric Raymond wrote: >> I could understand providing JSON format, specified using --json >> option. > > You know, that's actually an interesting idea. =A0I mentioned it > previously as the not-XML if we want to build on a metaprotocol; One issue is that there's no stream-parser JSON implementations that I'm aware of. Everthing I've seen is in-memory, therefore apt only for memory-bound operations. Not sure if all commands with -z output options can be assumed to produce bound-sized datasets. cheers, martin --=20 martin.langhoff@gmail.com martin@laptop.org -- School Server Architect - ask interesting questions - don't get distracted with shiny stuff - working code first - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff