From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2019 17:15:03 GMT
Subject: Re: Support for --stdin-paths in commit, add, etc
Message-ID: <xmqqa7cuqg6g.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com>
In-Reply-To: <a38bc928-7ccd-e2d9-b89b-23298e9fa95d@syntevo.com>

Alexandr Miloslavskiy <alexandr.miloslavskiy@syntevo.com> writes:

> In our git UI, we sometimes run into OS commandline length limit when
> trying to specify a list of pathspecs. For example, this happens when
> user selects a large set of files and wants to commit them. As a
> workaround, we split files and issue multiple git commands.

Yes, for plumbing commands meant for scripting, we really should
strive to give scriptors way(s) to avoid the command line limit,
and --stdin-paths is a very good approach to do so.