On Fri, Jan 27, 2017 at 06:34:46PM +0100, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > > Is it worth clarifying that these are paths, not pathspecs? The word > > "paths" is used to refer to the pathspecs on the command-line elsewhere > > in the document. > > > > It might also be worth mentioning the quoting rules for the non-z case. > > I think this would be overkill. In reality, --stdin without -z does not > make much sense, anyway.
I think with most Unix tools people tend to use the non-z forms until they break, and then switch to the z form. :) And in that sense, this transparently Just Works because the output will often come from another git tool, which will quote as appropriate. > If you feel strongly about it, I encourage you to submit a follow-up > patch. > > The rest of your suggestions have been implemented in v3. Thanks. I think the path/pathspec thing was the more important of the two suggestions. -Peff
