Re: [PATCH v2] git-contacts: allow inputting patch via stdin

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Sep 16, 2026, 14:25 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqqa4phxogc.fsf@gitster.g>
In-Reply-To: <20260915-git-contacts-stdin-v2-1-2005061d907a@brighamcampbell.com>

Brigham Campbell <me@brighamcampbell.com> writes:

>  # git-send-email --cc-cmd option, and in other situations.
>  #
>  # Usage: git contacts <file | rev-list option> ...
> +#        git contacts < <patch>

Not necessarily a suggestion to change what you already added, but a mere food for thought.

An obvious (and UNIX-y) alternative design would have been to follow the popular convention to tell the command to read from the standard input stream when "-" is used instead of a filename. Then this line did not have to change, and the command would have allowed arguments like:

	$ git contacts patch1 patch2 - <patch3
	$ git contacts patch1 - patch3 <patch2