From: Heikki Orsila <shd@modeemi.fi>
Date: Fri, 02 Nov 2007 14:21:50 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Make git-clone obey "--" (end argument parsing)
Message-ID: <20071102142150.GD9632@jolt.modeemi.cs.tut.fi>

Junio C Hamano wrote:
> I do not think this breaks anything, but does it _help_
> anything in practice?
> 
> What kind of breakage does this patch fix?

It doesn't fix anything, but it is a good usability standard to obey --.
I was creating a script that would _automatically_ clone repositories of 
other users. As a little bit pedantic shell script writer I added "--" 
and noticed that git clone doesn't handle that, although it's expected 
behavior from many tools.

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