From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Thu, 01 Nov 2007 20:39:58 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Make git-clone obey "--" (end argument parsing)
Message-ID: <7vve8laee9.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20071101195418.607DA4F95F@jolt.modeemi.cs.tut.fi>

shd@jolt.modeemi.cs.tut.fi (Heikki Orsila) writes:

> Oops. Reposting the patch.
>
> This patch handles "--" argument for git-clone.
>
> Signed-off-by: Heikki Orsila <heikki.orsila@iki.fi>
>
>>From bd2d661c565062eacc80dda90f3978303308f9bb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Heikki Orsila <heikki.orsila@iki.fi>
> Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2007 16:21:39 +0200
> Subject: [PATCH] Make git-clone obey "--" (end argument parsing)
>
> ---
>  Documentation/git-clone.txt |    2 +-
>  git-clone.sh                |    5 ++++-
>  2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/git-clone.txt b/Documentation/git-clone.txt
> index 253f4f0..7fdcd42 100644
> --- a/Documentation/git-clone.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/git-clone.txt
> @@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ SYNOPSIS
>  'git-clone' [--template=<template_directory>]
>  	  [-l] [-s] [--no-hardlinks] [-q] [-n] [--bare]
>  	  [-o <name>] [-u <upload-pack>] [--reference <repository>]
> -	  [--depth <depth>] <repository> [<directory>]
> +	  [--depth <depth>] [--] <repository> [<directory>]

I do not think this breaks anything, but does it _help_
anything in practice?

What kind of breakage does this patch fix?