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Re: [PATCH 0/3] --end-of-options marker

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SZEDER Gábor <szeder.dev@gmail.com>
Date
Aug 6, 2019, 18:14 UTC
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<20190806181459.GG20404@szeder.dev>
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On Tue, Aug 06, 2019 at 01:38:17PM -0400, Jeff King wrote:
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> Nothing about "--" is changed by my series; it will still stop option
> interpretation in rev-list and in other commands. But as before,
> rev-list (and other Git commands that use the revision.c parser) use it
> to separate revisions and pathspecs.  That's unlike how most other
> programs use "--", but that ship sailed for Git in 2005.

I'd like to draw attention to the oddball 'git filter-branch' command, which uses '--' as a separator between 'filter-branch' and 'rev-list' options. Will it still work with this new option? I think it will, but not sure.

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Message 9 of 16 in “--end-of-options marker”
  1. 0/3 --end-of-options markerJeff King, Aug 6, 2019
  2. 1/3 revision: allow --end-of-options to end option parsingJeff King, Aug 6, 2019
  3. 2/3 parse-options: allow --end-of-options as a synonym for "--"Jeff King, Aug 6, 2019
  4. 3/3 gitcli: document --end-of-optionsJeff King, Aug 6, 2019
  5. Junio C HamanoAug 6, 2019
  6. Randall S. BeckerAug 6, 2019
  7. Jeff KingAug 6, 2019
  8. Randall S. BeckerAug 6, 2019
  9. SZEDER GáborAug 6, 2019
  10. Jeff KingAug 8, 2019
  11. Jeff KingAug 6, 2019
  12. brian m. carlsonAug 6, 2019
  13. Jeff KingAug 6, 2019
  14. brian m. carlsonAug 7, 2019
  15. Taylor BlauAug 7, 2019
  16. Jeff KingAug 8, 2019

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