Re: [GSoC RFC PATCH 0/5] repo-info: add new command for retrieving repository info

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On Tue, Jun 10, 2025, at 17:21, Lucas Seiki Oshiro wrote:
> ## Motivation
>
> Currently, `git rev-parse` covers a wide range of functionality not directly
> related to parsing revisions, as its name says. Over time, many features like
> parsing datestrings, options, paths, and others were added to it because
> there wasn't a more appropriated command to place them.
>
> This way, many of these features would be better placed in new and dedicated
> commands. This kind of movement had other precedents in Git, for example, `git
> switch` and `git restore` were created after `git checkout` became too
> overloaded.

This is something I’ve wanted.  Thanks for starting the work.

-- 
Kristoffer Haugsbakk





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