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author | 2011-08-31 19:13:23 -0400 | |
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committer | 2011-08-31 19:13:23 -0400 | |
commit | 38eff1dc1feeb3f8f9b6dacb2027aa827fbf19ad (patch) | |
tree | dd23a893febd8df7fa8e33226d2d89ba93c15bc7 /doc | |
parent | f600444ab6d00826cc16c4a5cc67aca84cc1f9e0 (diff) | |
parent | baa43cb9c0b38135e136a8ff807c4caeb909b538 (diff) |
Merge branch 'master' of ssh://git-annex.branchable.com
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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. |