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diff --git a/doc/bugs/add_script-friendly_output_options.mdwn b/doc/bugs/add_script-friendly_output_options.mdwn deleted file mode 100644 index 7d7bdfc51..000000000 --- a/doc/bugs/add_script-friendly_output_options.mdwn +++ /dev/null @@ -1,19 +0,0 @@ -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. - -> This is [[done]], --json is supported by all commands, more or less. -> -> Caveats: -> -> * the version, status, and find commands produce custom output and so -> no json. This could change for version and status; find needs to just -> be a simple list of files, I think -> * The "note" fields may repeat multiple times per object with different -> notes and are of course not machine readable, and subject to change. -> * Output of helper commands like rsync is not diverted away, and -> could clutter up the json output badly. Should only affect commands -> that transfer data. And AFAICS, wget and rsync both output their -> progress displays to stderr, so shouldn't be a problem. -> -> --[[Joey]] |