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authorGravatar Joey Hess <joeyh@joeyh.name>2016-01-13 14:25:30 -0400
committerGravatar Joey Hess <joeyh@joeyh.name>2016-01-13 14:25:30 -0400
commitc747c8e423afe272dcf045abf3f1e8c1f6985e5c (patch)
tree2521170766eeee800de45895cd1df6bb73d3afcd /doc
parent0271693312df2134693562396bd6dd77b32c5e63 (diff)
addurl: Support --json, particularly useful in --batch mode.
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-rw-r--r--doc/bugs/inconsistent_output_upon_addurl_--batch_complicates_if_not_forbids_reliable_parsing_of_output.mdwn3
-rw-r--r--doc/git-annex-addurl.mdwn5
2 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/doc/bugs/inconsistent_output_upon_addurl_--batch_complicates_if_not_forbids_reliable_parsing_of_output.mdwn b/doc/bugs/inconsistent_output_upon_addurl_--batch_complicates_if_not_forbids_reliable_parsing_of_output.mdwn
index a0019456c..6601e9ba5 100644
--- a/doc/bugs/inconsistent_output_upon_addurl_--batch_complicates_if_not_forbids_reliable_parsing_of_output.mdwn
+++ b/doc/bugs/inconsistent_output_upon_addurl_--batch_complicates_if_not_forbids_reliable_parsing_of_output.mdwn
@@ -19,3 +19,6 @@ failed
"""]]
[[!meta author=yoh]]
+
+> I've made --json work for addurl; I feel that's the way to go for parsing
+> its output. [[done]] --[[Joey]]
diff --git a/doc/git-annex-addurl.mdwn b/doc/git-annex-addurl.mdwn
index 20cec9259..991dc5f99 100644
--- a/doc/git-annex-addurl.mdwn
+++ b/doc/git-annex-addurl.mdwn
@@ -83,6 +83,11 @@ be used to get better filenames.
content if the file does not yet exist; the same as
`git annex addurl $url --file $file`
+* `--json`
+
+ Enable JSON output. This is intended to be parsed by programs that use
+ git-annex. Each line of output is a JSON object.
+
# SEE ALSO
[[git-annex]](1)