Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 02:05:39PM -0800, Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Good catch. Is this a regression between 1.6.5 and the current code? > > Ah, you version is much shorter. :) More importantly it would avoid running "archive path --format=zip". That may be reordered by the current parse-options implementation, and other command line parsers (e.g. "git diff HEAD path --stat") may accept command line in such an order, but I somehow find it utterly wrong. We should prepare ourselves for the (distant) day on which we start enforcing "options then rev then paths" order from the command line. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html