Re: [RFC PATCH v1 0/1] ls-remote: inconsistency from the order of args and opts

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Jan 14, 2022, 21:52 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqqo84e9e9g.fsf@gitster.g>
In-Reply-To: <220114.86y23iqbbk.gmgdl@evledraar.gmail.com>

Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> writes:

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>>> But when GNU came around its option parser was generally happy to accept
>>> options and args in either order. E.g. these both work with GNU
>>> coreutils, but the latter will fail on FreeBSD and various other
>>> capital-U UNIX-es:
>>>
>>>     touch foo; rm -v foo
>>>     touch foo; rm foo -v
>
> This is only an approximate list, but:

Don't waste your time on this, and instead spend on something more useful. What I gave wrt gitcli.txt in an earlier message is final.