On Mon, Nov 15, 2021 at 04:13:24PM +0100, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:

But I'd much rather see this be done with adding strbuf_expand() to
ls-tree. I.e. its docs say that it can emit:

I had a similar thought, but that's a much bigger task. I think it would
be reasonable to add --oid-only to match the existing --name-only, etc.
If we later add a custom --format option, then it can easily be folded
in and explained as "this is an alias for --format=%(objectname)", just
like --name-only would become "this is an alias for --format=%(path)".

-Peff