From: Tim Hockin <thockin@google.com>
Date: Sun, 21 Aug 2022 00:39:36 GMT
Subject: Re: rev-parse: -- is sometimes a flag and sometimes an arg?
Message-ID: <CAO_RewaZHL34WBaoXVyXh6ZNVuG+fi5uGUbpRMsc9N=orHzx1Q@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <xmqq4jy6igb2.fsf@gitster.g>

Sorry, I assumed it was clear, but that was dumb of me.

I have a string - might be a tag name, might be a branch name, might
be a SHA (complete or partial).  I want to resolve that into a
canonical SHA.  My finger-memory is `git rev-parse`, but I can't say
if that's just a bad habit I picked up somewhere...

Tim

On Sat, Aug 20, 2022 at 5:36 PM Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
>
> Tim Hockin <thockin@google.com> writes:
>
> > Thanks.  Is there a more friendly way to do what I'm trying to
> > express?  Should I just use `rev-list -n1` instead?
>
> That's hard to answer, as you didn't exactly say what you are trying
> to express.  All you asked was: why is "--" treated as an arg.