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From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 3/3] gitcli: document --end-of-options
Date: Tue, 6 Aug 2019 10:40:30 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190806144030.GC2161@sigill.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190806143829.GA515@sigill.intra.peff.net>

Now that --end-of-options is available for any users of
setup_revisions() or parse_options(), which should be effectively
everywhere, we can guide people to use it for all their disambiguating
needs.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
---
 Documentation/gitcli.txt | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Documentation/gitcli.txt b/Documentation/gitcli.txt
index 1ed3ca33b7..4b32876b6e 100644
--- a/Documentation/gitcli.txt
+++ b/Documentation/gitcli.txt
@@ -37,6 +37,12 @@ arguments.  Here are the rules:
    file called HEAD in your work tree, `git diff HEAD` is ambiguous, and
    you have to say either `git diff HEAD --` or `git diff -- HEAD` to
    disambiguate.
+
+ * Because `--` disambiguates revisions and paths in some commands, it
+   cannot be used for those commands to separate options and revisions.
+   You can use `--end-of-options` for this (it also works for commands
+   that do not distinguish between revisions in paths, in which case it
+   is simply an alias for `--`).
 +
 When writing a script that is expected to handle random user-input, it is
 a good practice to make it explicit which arguments are which by placing
-- 
2.23.0.rc1.436.g24d2e81391

  parent reply	other threads:[~2019-08-06 14:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-08-06 14:38 [PATCH 0/3] --end-of-options marker Jeff King
2019-08-06 14:39 ` [PATCH 1/3] revision: allow --end-of-options to end option parsing Jeff King
2019-08-06 14:40 ` [PATCH 2/3] parse-options: allow --end-of-options as a synonym for "--" Jeff King
2019-08-06 14:40 ` Jeff King [this message]
2019-08-06 16:24 ` [PATCH 0/3] --end-of-options marker Junio C Hamano
2019-08-06 16:36   ` Randall S. Becker
2019-08-06 17:38     ` Jeff King
2019-08-06 17:58       ` Randall S. Becker
2019-08-06 18:14       ` SZEDER Gábor
2019-08-08 10:03         ` Jeff King
2019-08-06 17:33   ` Jeff King
2019-08-06 22:58 ` brian m. carlson
2019-08-06 23:43   ` Jeff King
2019-08-07  4:17     ` brian m. carlson
2019-08-07 16:54       ` Taylor Blau
2019-08-08 10:28       ` Jeff King

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