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`ent list` should take a git-like --pretty=format:
The immediate use is:
* list all issues in state=inprogress, but only tell me the assignees of each
I currently do this with a slow and awkward shell script:
```
for ISSUE_ID in $(ent list state=inprogress | grep ' ' | cut -f 1 -d ' '); do
ent show "${ISSUE_ID}" | grep -i assign
done
```

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There's a fly in the ointment: we want to store tags as files in a
directory, but file names are not allowed to contain the character `/`,
and some of our current tags use `/` in the tag name.
We could allow subdirectories of the `tags` directory, but it feels
like that breaks the budding database abstraction of "a directory is a
key/value store, filenames are the keys, file contents are the values".
We could forbid `/` in tags and replace them with `.` or `_` or something,
but that's a bit sad because i like `/` as the "hierarchy separator".
Wikipedia claims, and experiment confirms:
> The big solidus (Unicode code point U+29F8) is permitted in Unix
> and Windows filenames.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filename#Problematic_characters>
But that feels like madness.
I think the least worst option is to replace `/` with `.` in tags.
Opinions?