Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> writes:
> I agree they are technically orthogonal, but I cannot think of a case
> where I have ever generated actual _pathspecs_, which might have
> wildcards, and needed to use "-z". The point of using "-z" is that you
> do not know what crap you are feeding.
You do not have to generate, i.e. you should be allowed to do this:
$ git cmd --stdin -z <list-of-patterns
And this is not about "flexibility". Unless your plan is to forbid
a corner case you do not anticipate and always disable pathspec
globbing, you would need to say something like:
--literal-pathspecs::
All Git command lines take dashed options first and
then revs and then "pathspecs". They are usually
used to select the paths using glob(1)-like
matching, but with this option they must match the
paths byte-for-byte.
Except when "--stdin -z" is used, in which case you
need to give "--no-literal-pathspecs" if you want to
feed patterns.
Which is awkward. And "--stdin -z" is most likely used in scripts;
we are not forcing people to keep typing --literal-pathspecs by
leaving them orthogonal *and* people do not have to remember one
more exception (the default of --literal-pathspecs is flipped only
when --stdin -z is in use) to the rule.
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