Re: [PATCH 0/3] "log --stdin" updates

Jeff King [off-list ref] writes:

On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 03:25:12AM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:

quoted

These three come on top of 61ab67a (Teach --stdin option to "log" family,
2009-11-03), which gave "--stdin" to the log family of commands (e.g. log,
rev-list).  The earlier patch allowed you to feed only the revs (which was
what gitk originally wanted), but after zero or more revs (one rev per
line), you can now feed a line that consists of "--" and then pathspecs
(one path per line).

This looks like a good API feature, though I am curious about the
missing "4/3" that was the motivation (of course, with a feature
like this, it may be for your out-of-git script, but as I said, I am
curious :) ). Is it a response to

  http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/133268

?

No.  This series is a follow-up to $gmane/131971; I was suspicious that I
missed something for the API feature to be complete back then (and the
patch was not signed-off partly for that reason), and I found one thing
that was lacking.