Re: Weird behavior of git rev-parse

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

> Yakup Akbay <yakbay@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> 
> > Then I've tried
> >
> >    $ git rev-parse -'hi, this is a test!'
> >
> > the output is:
> >
> >    -hi, this is a test!
> >
> > Is this an expected behavior?
> 
> Absolutely.  rev-parse was originally written as a way for Porcelain
> scripts to sift parameters into four different categories.
> 
>  * options and non-options (that's two)
> 
>  * args meant for rev-list and others (that's another two)
> 
> Multiplying two x two gives you four combinations.
> 
> Because you are not giving options like --revs-only, --no-revs, --flags,
> nor --no-flags, rev-parse outputs everything.

git-rev-parse can also be used to bring parseopt to shell scripts.

-- 
Jakub Narebski
Poland
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