Subject: Re: Git archiving only branch work

From: Jeff King <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2014 16:33:18 -0500

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

> > 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?

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).

-Peff