From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2014 21:33:18 GMT
Subject: Re: Git archiving only branch work
Message-ID: <20141113213318.GA7563@peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <xmqqvbmizu12.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com>

On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 01:10:17PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> > How about just adding --stdin, which matches other git commands?
> 
> How about doing nothing and use the correct $IFS instead?

Can you cover all cases with $IFS, including filenames with newlines?

I agree it is probably OK in practice and for the OP's question, but it
is nice to have "-z" variants so you do not have to worry about quoting
at all. I'd argue that a "--stdin -z" should probably also accept raw
filenames, not pathspecs, too (so you do not have to use
"--literal-pathspecs" elsewhere).

-Peff