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Re: [PATCH] usage: do not insist that standard input must come from a file

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Oct 16, 2015, 20:08 UTC
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Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> writes:
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>>  --stdin::
>> -	Read file names from stdin instead of from the command-line.
>> +	Read pathnames from stdin instead of from the command-line.
>
> Here I have to read the description of "-z" to understand that pathnames
> come one per line.  How about
>
> 	Read pathnames from stdin, one per line, instead of from the command
> 	line.

Thanks, that would be better (and for all the other one-per-line type of stuff).

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