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To:     Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Cc:     Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5] git check-ref-format --stdin --report-errors
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Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu> writes:

> Especially given that the output is not especially machine-readable, it
> might be more consistent with other commands to call the new feature
> `--verbose` rather than `--report-errors`.

Don't we instead want to structure the output to be machine-readable
instead, given that check-ref-format is a very low level plumbing
command that is primarily meant for scriptors?