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| author |  http://jefferai.org/ <http://jefferai.org/@web> | 2011-08-30 20:56:44 +0000 |
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| committer |  admin <admin@branchable.com> | 2011-08-30 20:56:44 +0000 |
| commit | baa43cb9c0b38135e136a8ff807c4caeb909b538 (patch) | |
| tree | 3226e347a63cb869547f92a7ead4f298f1c18842 | |
| parent | abe3b5bf783b65b2d1e071117c99fe6aa790bf0a (diff) | |
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/bugs/add_script-friendly_output_options.mdwn | 3 |
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diff --git a/doc/bugs/add_script-friendly_output_options.mdwn b/doc/bugs/add_script-friendly_output_options.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 000000000..efcd54553 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/bugs/add_script-friendly_output_options.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +I have a need to use git-annex from a larger program. It'd be great if the information output by some of the commands that is descriptive (for example, whereis) could be sent to stdout in a machine-readable format like (preferably) JSON, or XML. That way I can simply read in the output of the command and use the data directly instead of having to parse it via regexes or other such string manipulation. + +This could perhaps be triggered by a --json or --xml flag to the relevant commands. |