From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2007 12:33:50 GMT
Subject: Arbitrary long file lists?
Message-ID: <866442t6j5.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz>


Hi,

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)

Of course, this particular syntax, very loosely inspired by infozip,
leaves a lot to be desired: prettier proposals welcome.

But the feature itself would not be unimportant.  I am also fuzzy on
what sort of quoting should be interpreted outside of the
NUL-terminated case.

-- 
David Kastrup