From: Alexandr Miloslavskiy <alexandr.miloslavskiy@syntevo.com>
Date: Fri, 02 Aug 2019 11:44:03 GMT
Subject: Re: Support for --stdin-paths in commit, add, etc
Message-ID: <7edb3b11-054c-81a9-d88e-7e2325ad813f@syntevo.com>
In-Reply-To: <nycvar.QRO.7.76.6.1908021335250.46@tvgsbejvaqbjf.bet>

@Johannes, thanks a lot for your tips!

On 02.08.2019 13:40, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
>  From past experience, I find that it is important to also implement the
> `-z` option (which traditionally means: accept items via the command
> line that are delimited by NULs).
> 
> And you might find inspiration in my patch to read the paths passed to
> `git reset` from stdin:
> https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git/pull/133/commits/1db4ef0ec1ec
> 
> I guess you could use a similar approach just after the
> `parse_pathspec()` call in `prepare_index()`:
> https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git/blob/1db4ef0ec1ec/builtin/commit.c#L339-L342