From: Jacob Keller <jacob.keller@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2015 06:33:17 GMT
Subject: Re: Git's inconsistent command line options
Message-ID: <CA+P7+xpMnRhNd843_w-RcvH=6eB52AhhNJ+dQWogRBWggyjtvA@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <877foief6z.fsf@igel.home>

On Tue, Aug 25, 2015 at 11:28 PM, Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org> wrote:
> Jacob Keller <jacob.keller@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> "if you really mean to create a tag named create, use
>>
>> git tag -- create master
>
> In all other uses of -- refs must be put on the *left* side.
>
> Andreas.
>

Oops that wouldn't be consistent then. Normally "--" is used to
separate options from non-options arguments, but we usually use it to
separate refs from non-refs.

Guess that sort of ruins this particular strategy.

Regards,
Jake