Another hack just occurred to me... get_pathspec() could translate '-' to /dev/stdin while leaving './-' to '-'. It could be rather too ugly to the taste of some people. Myself, I dunno... - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html