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/[email protected]/
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.
