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Re: rev-parse: -- is sometimes a flag and sometimes an arg?

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Aug 21, 2022, 00:36 UTC
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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.

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