[Nix-dev] Patch: Add a "--from-file" option to all nix commands

[Shea Levy]

This version is tested and works as expected.

On 08/08/2011 03:16 PM, Shea Levy wrote:
> This version of the patch uses tokenizeString to parse, and only 
> tokenizes on newlines. This is STILL NOT TESTED, will report back once 
> I've tested it.
>
> ~Shea
>
> On 08/08/2011 02:52 PM, shea at shealevy.com wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> This patch adds and documents the "--from-file" option which allows
>>> parsing a file (or stdin) for additional arguments to the command. Note
>>> that this patch is NOT YET TESTED, I'm sending it here while I work on
>>> figuring out how to build nix from SVN in the hopes that someone might
>>> already be equipped to do so and might test it in the mean time.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Shea Levy
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>> Forgot to mention why we care about this: This will allow us to avoid 
>> the
>> "argument list too long" problem with the default remote builder hook by
>> allowing us to send arguments via stdin.
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