On Wed, Sep 4, 2019 at 5:38 PM Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget
<gitgitgad...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Just like with other Git commands, this option makes it read the paths
> from the standard input. It comes in handy when resetting many, many
> paths at once and wildcards are not an option (e.g. when the paths are
> generated by a tool).
> [...]
> Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schinde...@gmx.de>
> ---
> diff --git a/builtin/reset.c b/builtin/reset.c
> @@ -316,6 +325,38 @@ int cmd_reset(int argc, const char **argv, const char
> *prefix)
> + if (read_from_stdin) {
> + [...]
> + while (getline_fn(&buf, stdin) != EOF) {
> + if (!nul_term_line && buf.buf[0] == '"') {
> + strbuf_reset(&unquoted);
> + if (unquote_c_style(&unquoted, buf.buf, NULL))
> + die(_("line is badly quoted"));
Perhaps include the offending line in the error message to make it
easier for the user to understand what went wrong:
die(_("line is badly quoted: %s"), buf.buf);
