On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 19:30, Eric Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com> wrote:
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> Simon <turner25@gmail.com>:
>> 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.

A lot of web services (like some Catalyst-based applications) support
all of these equally. If Git had machine readable output like this it
would be nice if every git-* program just had --format=* where * could
be xml, json, yaml, sexp, perl etc.

The program would just construct a native datastructure and then there
would be an output driver to generate the textual representation.
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