Hi, commands like git-archive take a file list on the command line. If the number of files does no longer fit the argv limitations, this causes a problem. So it might be nice to be able to treat some "filenames" in a file list special: -@=filename (read LF-lines with filenames from filename) -@=- (read lines with filenames from stdin) -@z=filename (read NUL-terminated list with filenames from filename) -@z=- (same from stdin) Of course, this particular syntax, very loosely inspired by infozip, leaves a lot to be desired: prettier proposals welcome. But the feature itself would not be unimportant. I am also fuzzy on what sort of quoting should be interpreted outside of the NUL-terminated case. -- David Kastrup - 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
