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From: "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>
To: Git Mailing list <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: is there a stylistic preference for a trailing "--" on a command?
Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2017 08:57:45 -0500 (EST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.21.1711100855140.3617@DESKTOP-1GPMCEJ> (raw)


  just noticed these examples in "man git-bisect":

EXAMPLES
  $ git bisect start HEAD v1.2 --      # HEAD is bad, v1.2 is good
  ...
  $ git bisect start HEAD origin --    # HEAD is bad, origin is good
  ...
  $ git bisect start HEAD HEAD~10 --   # culprit is among the last 10

is there some rationale or stylistic significance to those trailing
"--" on those commands? i assume they have no effect, just curious as
to why they're there.

rday

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             reply	other threads:[~2017-11-10 13:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-11-10 13:57 Robert P. J. Day [this message]
2017-11-10 18:12 ` is there a stylistic preference for a trailing "--" on a command? Stefan Beller
2017-11-11 15:39   ` Jeff King
2017-11-12  1:18     ` Junio C Hamano

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