Re: [RFE] Add JSON output to git log commands
From: Junio C Hamano <hidden>
Date: 2025-08-17 22:54:25
Ron Ziroby Romero [off-list ref] writes:
## Design outline * Add a `PRETTY_JSON` constant. * Create a pretty-json.c file to output JSON log information * Modify pretty.c to call pretty-json to output JSON when the flag is set. * Use existing utility functions written in the existing source to output the JSON.
Is this limited to only giving another serialization format to what is in `git cat-file commit` output for sequence of commits, which is what I see in the example below? Within that limited scope, I am curious what your plan is to deal with header elements like "encoding", "gpgsig", "mergetag", etc. And outside that scope, I am not sure what the most useful output would be for things outside what is in each of the commit object. E.g., various "diff" output, e.g. --stat, -p, --name-status... Leaving that outside the scope would be a very clean way out to avoid confusing design issues ;-)