Re: [PATCH 4/5] interpret-trailers: add an option to normalize output

On 11/08/17 00:10, Jeff King wrote:

On Fri, Aug 11, 2017 at 12:02:49AM +0100, Ramsay Jones wrote:

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But some of those things are not 1:1 mappings with normalization.  For
instance, --json presumably implies --only-trailers. Or are we proposing
to break the whole commit message down into components and output it all
as json?

Hmm, to me the operation wasn't so much a normalization, rather
it was an --unfold (or maybe --un-fold ;-D). I suppose going in
the other direction could be --fold=72, or some such.

But I really don't want callers to think of it as "unfold". I want it to
be "turn this into something I can parse simply". Hence if we were to
find another case where the output is irregular, I'd feel comfortable
calling that a bug and fixing it (one that I suspect but haven't tested
is that alternate separators probably should all be converted to
colons).

Ah, yes, good point.

ATB,
Ramsay Jones