From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 09 Aug 2023 19:11:31 GMT
Subject: Re: git send-email -v
Message-ID: <xmqqv8dom3oc.fsf@gitster.g>
In-Reply-To: <CA+P7+xrGBNO-JNfHvbVUV9AgY_Q8PgYSr5EVycGzC5+ZB7Cv3A@mail.gmail.com>

Jacob Keller <jacob.keller@gmail.com> writes:

> In short: this is working as intended, but it is somewhat confusing
> that it doesn't validate the argument at all. It is intentional to
> allow non-numeric strings, but maybe we ought to validate that it
> doesn't start with -- to avoid such confusion here.

I think both of your points are quite reasonable here.