Re: Git archiving only branch work

Jeff King [off-list ref] writes:

On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 01:10:17PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:

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How about just adding --stdin, which matches other git commands?

How about doing nothing and use the correct $IFS instead?

Can you cover all cases with $IFS, including filenames with newlines?

You didn't say "--stdin -z", so I presume --stdin is not solving
anything ;-)

I agree it is probably OK in practice and for the OP's question, but it
is nice to have "-z" variants so you do not have to worry about quoting
at all. I'd argue that a "--stdin -z" should probably also accept raw
filenames, not pathspecs, too (so you do not have to use
"--literal-pathspecs" elsewhere).

I agree "--stdin -z" is a good thing but what makes you think that
the producer of the data is _always_ walking the directory hierarchy
and showing the pathnames it sees?  I think use of literal-pathspecs
should not be tied to the use of either --stdin or -z.