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Add output customization options #8

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quasilyte opened this issue Dec 7, 2021 · 0 comments

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quasilyte commented Dec 7, 2021

There are at least 2 use cases that require different output formats:

Statistics analysis. Here we don't need the source locations, we only need to know the number of hits and maybe how they're distributed across the repositories.
Search. In this case, we need as much location info as possible (filename, etc). We're interested not only to count the instances, but also find the exact source code locations.

So, for (1) we can aggregate similar results, keeping only the uniq ones. Exact source locations are not needed, they would only pollute the output.

For (2) we should not merge the results. Exact source locations are a must.

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