Now that --end-of-options is available for any users of
setup_revisions() or parse_options(), which should be effectively
everywhere, we can guide people to use it for all their disambiguating
needs.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx>
---
Documentation/gitcli.txt | 6 ++++++
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
diff --git a/Documentation/gitcli.txt b/Documentation/gitcli.txt
index 1ed3ca33b7..4b32876b6e 100644
--- a/Documentation/gitcli.txt
+++ b/Documentation/gitcli.txt
@@ -37,6 +37,12 @@ arguments. Here are the rules:
file called HEAD in your work tree, `git diff HEAD` is ambiguous, and
you have to say either `git diff HEAD --` or `git diff -- HEAD` to
disambiguate.
+
+ * Because `--` disambiguates revisions and paths in some commands, it
+ cannot be used for those commands to separate options and revisions.
+ You can use `--end-of-options` for this (it also works for commands
+ that do not distinguish between revisions in paths, in which case it
+ is simply an alias for `--`).
+
When writing a script that is expected to handle random user-input, it is
a good practice to make it explicit which arguments are which by placing
--
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