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Re: Arbitrary long file lists?

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Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Date
Jul 30, 2007, 12:43 UTC
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On 7/30/07, David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org> wrote:
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> commands like git-archive take a file list on the command line.  If
> the number of files does no longer fit the argv limitations, this
> causes a problem.
>
> So it might be nice to be able to treat some "filenames" in a file
> list special:
>
> -@=filename (read LF-lines with filenames from filename)
> -@=- (read lines with filenames from stdin)
> -@z=filename (read NUL-terminated list with filenames from filename)
> -@z=- (same from stdin)

git-update-index and the like use --stdin and -z. What do you need the one with filename for?

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