Johannes, thanks for working on this problem! In the previous discussion, there was a suggestion to change '--stdin' to '--paths-file', where '--paths-file -' would mean stdin: https://public-inbox.org/git/066cfd61-9700-e154-042f-fc9cffbd6346@xxxxxx/ I believe that was a good suggestion for a few reasons: 1) Supporting files in addition to stdin sounds reasonable for its cost. 2) '--paths-file' will support files and stdin with the same "interface", avoiding the possible need for another interface later. 3) '--paths-file' sounds more self-documented then '--stdin'. Later, we intend to provide patches to extend the same feature to multiple other commands, at least {add, checkout, commit, rm, stash}, and I'm merely trying to avoid possible design issues for this larger-scale change. If you don't mind the suggestion but not willing to spend time implementing it, we'd like to step in and contribute the remaining work.
