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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. |