Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@xxxxxxxxx> writes: >>> But when GNU came around its option parser was generally happy to accept >>> options and args in either order. E.g. these both work with GNU >>> coreutils, but the latter will fail on FreeBSD and various other >>> capital-U UNIX-es: >>> >>> touch foo; rm -v foo >>> touch foo; rm foo -v > > This is only an approximate list, but: Don't waste your time on this, and instead spend on something more useful. What I gave wrt gitcli.txt in an earlier message is final.