Re: exporting git commands in parsable format for constructing language-specific API for git CLI

On Sat, Mar 27, 2021 at 01:42:09AM +0100, ama bamo wrote:

While using git commands in my applications and reimplementing the
same stuff i found out i can just parse git docs then generate
structures and classes based on that; i have done similiar for
wordpress and its `wp-cli`, for example see:
https://github.com/bukowa/gowpcli/tree/master/generated

But `wp-cli` allows exporting all of the commands in a json format,
see: https://github.com/bukowa/gowpcli/blob/master/generate/dump.json

I'm not entirely sure if something like this exists in git, and I'm
alsot unsure of what exactly is the benefit of doing so vs an actual API
(e.g., git2go[1]). Could you help us by elaborating what this is meant to
achieve? Maybe that way we can figure out if something exists...

Cheers!
-Santiago

[1] https://github.com/libgit2/git2go