From: Christopher Cameron <christopher.cameron@live.com>
Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2010 17:55:20 GMT
Subject: Re: Problem with &quot;dashless options&quot;
Message-ID: <loom.20100427T194730-644@post.gmane.org>
In-Reply-To: <D69FA890-4249-4DC9-B8AE-C9F105F1AD3B@isy.liu.se>

Henrik Tidefelt <tidefelt <at> isy.liu.se> writes:

> Some of the git sub-commands work fine (for instance,  
> checkout, status, remote), while push gives an error as follows:
> 
> $ git push isy next
> fatal: BUG: dashless options don't support arguments

I encountered the exact same problem.  There are a sequence of
#defines in parse_options.h which are supposed to initialize option
structs (OPT_END, OPT_STRING, etc).  These structures only partially 
initialize the structure, leading to, for instance, junk bits in the flags 
word of OPT_STRING.
 type: 9
 short_name: m
 long_name: master
 flags: 74636f6e
You were seeing some commands affected vs not depending on how
they use the options macros.

I changed my local source to fill out the full struct, and I never saw 
the bug again.