Re: fatal: BUG: dashless options don't support arguments

Hello,
 I was asked to report this bug error... Environment: OS 10.4.11 PowerPC:

Ki:$ git branch
* branch1
  master
Ki:$ git checkout master
fatal: BUG: dashless options don't support arguments
Ki:$ git --version
git version 1.7.3.GIT

[Context: http://colabti.org/irclogger/irclogger_log/git?date=2010-10-06 http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/128066/focus=145945 ]

Hi Brian,

Brian Zitzow wrote:

Strange indeed.  Here's what I would suggest:

1. For debugging output:

 $ echo 'prefix=/usr/local' >>config.mak; # or whatever prefix you use
 $ git describe
 $ gcc --version
 $ wget 'http://download.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/128067/128068'
 $ git am -3 128068
 $ make
 $ bin-wrappers/git checkout m

2. To track down the issue, if you like to read assembler:

 $ make builtin/checkout.s
 $ vi checkout.s

Good luck, Jonathan

On Thu, Oct 07, 2010 at 10:18:18PM -0500, Jonathan Nieder wrote:

Yeah, I would be curious to see the output of that. Interesting, too, that it seems to happen with multiple commands (it looked like it happened with "git push foo" in the pastebin from the irc log).

Ugh. I think a better course of action is to find out which option is being munged (from step 1 above), and then try running it under gdb with a watch set on that option struct. Assuming it's easily reproducible of course.

-Peff

Am 10/8/2010 2:06, schrieb Brian Zitzow:

Maybe related to this one:

http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/973211/focus=973865

-- Hannes