Subject: Re: ps/fetch-output-format (was: What's cooking in git.git (May 2023, #02; Fri, 5))

From: Patrick Steinhardt <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 8 May 2023 09:31:33 +0200

On Fri, May 05, 2023 at 04:05:57PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> * ps/fetch-output-format (2023-05-03) 8 commits
>  - fetch: introduce machine-parseable "porcelain" output format
>  - fetch: move option related variables into main function
>  - fetch: move display format parsing into main function
>  - fetch: introduce `display_format` enum
>  - fetch: fix missing from-reference when fetching HEAD:foo
>  - fetch: add a test to exercise invalid output formats
>  - fetch: split out tests for output format
>  - fetch: fix `--no-recurse-submodules` with multi-remote fetches
> 
>  "git fetch" learned the "--output-format" option that emits what it
>  did in a machine-parseable format.
> 
>  Will merge to 'next'?
>  source: <[email-masked]>

Note that the description isn't accurate anymore: v3 of the patch series
has changed the new option from `--output-format` to `--porcelain`. With
that change I'd also feel more comfortable if the new iteration had at
least one review before merging to `next`.

Patrick