From baa43cb9c0b38135e136a8ff807c4caeb909b538 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "http://jefferai.org/" Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2011 20:56:44 +0000 Subject: --- doc/bugs/add_script-friendly_output_options.mdwn | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) create mode 100644 doc/bugs/add_script-friendly_output_options.mdwn (limited to 'doc/bugs') 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. -- cgit v1.2.3