Re: More git status --porcelain lossage

A lot of web services (like some Catalyst-based applications) support
all of these equally. If Git had machine readable output like this it
would be nice if every git-* program just had --format=* where * could
be xml, json, yaml, sexp, perl etc.

The program would just construct a native datastructure and then there
would be an output driver to generate the textual representation.

I had something just like this in mind when I suggested XML...
I would personally avoid it for same reasons others have pointed out, but...
There are lots of tools out there that can parse and display XML very
well natively.  Firefox is one such example.

My intention is not to start a flame here, rather try to keep our
options flexible.  ASCII would clearly remain the default though! ;)

Simon