Teng Long <dyroneteng@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > On Fri, Jan 14, 2022 at 1:47 PM Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> Apparently, it is not a common knowledge at least for you (and >> probably others). Perhaps we should add a paragraph to the cli help >> and explicitly mention "options first and then args", before we go >> on to say "among args, revs first and then pathspecs". > > It's much clearer now, thanks for the detailed answer. > > Another question, if I want to follow your advice and add a short > paragraph in git CLI document, should this patch continue in the > current RFC patchset or launch a new patchset? If I were you, I would retract the ls-remote topic and create a brand new topic that is about clarifying/enhancing the gitcli.txt file, which has nothing to do with ls-remote, because the command line option/argument convention is not specific to a single command.