From: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2007 12:43:08 GMT
Subject: Re: Arbitrary long file lists?
Message-ID: <81b0412b0707300543p48964b73o5f972405645e70e9@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <866442t6j5.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz>

On 7/30/07, David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org> wrote:
> 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?