Teach git-checkout-index to read filenames from stdin.
Since git-checkout-index is often used from scripts which
may have a stream of filenames they wish to checkout it is
more convenient to use --stdin than xargs. On platforms
where fork performance is currently sub-optimal and
the length of a command line is limited (*cough* Cygwin
*cough*) running a single git-checkout-index process for
a large number of files beats spawning it multiple times
from xargs.
File names are still accepted on the command line if
--stdin is not supplied. Nothing is performed if no files
are supplied on the command line or by stdin.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
diff --git a/checkout-index.c b/checkout-index.c
index 957b4a8..f54c606 100644
--- a/checkout-index.c
+++ b/checkout-index.c
@@ -22,6 +22,10 @@
*
* find . -name '*.h' -print0 | xargs -0 git-checkout-index -f --
*
+ * or:
+ *
+ * find . -name '*.h' -print0 | git-checkout-index -f -z --stdin
+ *
* which will force all existing *.h files to be replaced with
* their cached copies. If an empty command line implied "all",
* then this would force-refresh everything in the cache, which
@@ -33,6 +37,8 @@
* but get used to it in scripting!).
*/
#include "cache.h"
+#include "strbuf.h"
+#include "quote.h"
static const char *prefix;
static int prefix_length;
@@ -114,6 +120,8 @@
int i;
int newfd = -1;
int all = 0;
+ int read_from_stdin = 0;
+ int line_termination = '\n';
prefix = setup_git_directory();
git_config(git_default_config);
@@ -156,6 +164,17 @@
die("cannot open index.lock file.");
continue;
}
+ if (!strcmp(arg, "-z")) {
+ line_termination = 0;
+ continue;
+ }
+ if (!strcmp(arg, "--stdin")) {
+ if (i != argc - 1)
+ die("--stdin must be at the end");
+ read_from_stdin = 1;
+ i++; /* do not consider arg as a file name */
+ break;
+ }
if (!strncmp(arg, "--prefix=", 9)) {
state.base_dir = arg+9;
state.base_dir_len = strlen(state.base_dir);
@@ -191,9 +210,31 @@
if (all)
die("git-checkout-index: don't mix '--all' and explicit filenames");
+ if (read_from_stdin)
+ die("git-checkout-index: don't mix '--stdin' and explicit filenames");
checkout_file(prefix_path(prefix, prefix_length, arg));
}
+ if (read_from_stdin) {
+ struct strbuf buf;
+ if (all)
+ die("git-checkout-index: don't mix '--all' and '--stdin'");
+ strbuf_init(&buf);
+ while (1) {
+ char *path_name;
+ read_line(&buf, stdin, line_termination);
+ if (buf.eof)
+ break;
+ if (line_termination && buf.buf[0] == '"')
+ path_name = unquote_c_style(buf.buf, NULL);
+ else
+ path_name = buf.buf;
+ checkout_file(prefix_path(prefix, prefix_length, path_name));
+ if (path_name != buf.buf)
+ free(path_name);
+ }
+ }
+
if (all)
checkout_all();
