From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Thu, 01 Aug 2019 20:26:49 GMT
Subject: Re: Support for --stdin-paths in commit, add, etc
Message-ID: <xmqqmugsmy2e.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com>
In-Reply-To: <06daa8c1-d955-1e49-e5e6-85d53ffce6e6@gmail.com>

Phillip Wood <phillip.wood123@gmail.com> writes:

> No but it only takes paths not pathspecs, can you filter out the
> ignored paths first? From a UI point of view it would be better not to
> allow users to select ignored files if you don't want to be able to
> add them. If you want to use a pathspec then you can do 'git ls-files
> --exclude-standard -o -z <pathspec ...> | git update-index --add -z
> --stdin'
> ...
> You can use a temporary index, add the files you want to commit with
> update-index --stdin and then run 'git commit'

All true.  Perhaps we need a separate tutorial for scripters to
teach them how to properly combine the plumbing commands?

> When I've been scripting I've sometimes wished that diff-index and
> diff-files had a --stdin option.

Sounds fair.