Re: git-rev-parse: pass on "--" flag when required

From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date: Oct 21, 2005, 00:24 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0510201720420.10477@g5.osdl.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0510201711380.10477@g5.osdl.org>

On Thu, 20 Oct 2005, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> 
> If rev-parse output includes both flags and files, we should pass on any 
> "--" marker we see, so that the end result can also tell the difference 
> between a flag and a filename that begins with '-'.

Btw, if it wasn't obvious, this is also required to keep files and revs separate.

I don't think we have anything that cares right now, but I'm working on trying to get "git-rev-list" to limit its output to the files given on the command line, and then I want to be able to do

	gitk -- rev-list.c

and in my version of git-rev-list, the "--" is required to separate out the revs from the names (since otherwise it's just too error-prone).

That requires that git-rev-parse not only honor "--", but pass it through when the output can contain both revs/flags _and_ filenames.

			Linus