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+Enhancement: Enable support for json output on init command
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+Init command did not listen to the --json flag, it now outputs a struct depending on a successful or failed creation of a repository, with all relevant information
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+https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/3124
+https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/3132