# gitk handling of -- on commandline?

1 messages from 2007-03-19 to 2007-03-19. Participants: J. Bruce Fields.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/7308

## J. Bruce Fields, 2007-03-19 03:36

Subject: gitk handling of -- on commandline?
Message-ID: <20070319033648.GA13374@fieldses.org>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20070319033648.GA13374%40fieldses.org

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Since I often use "TMP" as a name both for files and branches, I wasn't
that suprised recently when

	gitk TMP

complained that "TMP" was ambiguous and asked me to use -- to separate
filenames from revisions.  I was a bit more surprised when it still did
that after I gave it

	gitk TMP --

I looked through the source code very quickly but it wasn't obvious to
me why this was happening.  The reverse,

	gitk -- TMP

interestingly doesn't seem to have the same problem.

--b.

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