Am 27.11.2023 um 22:22 schrieb Jeff King:
$ git rev-parse --symbolic-full-name --end-of-options master
--end-of-options
refs/heads/master
Here, the output also contains "--end-of-options" as if it is a reference
(same for "--")
This one is intentional. rev-parse in its default mode is not just
spitting out revisions, but also options that are meant to be passed
along to the revision machinery via other commands (like rev-list). So
for example:
$ git rev-parse --foo HEAD
--foo
564d0252ca632e0264ed670534a51d18a689ef5d
And it does understand end-of-options explicitly, so:
$ git rev-parse --end-of-options --foo --
--end-of-options
fatal: bad revision '--foo'
If you just want to parse a name robustly, use --verify.
I would expect that -- and --end-of-options are handled in a special way
here so that rev-parse can also be used in scripts. I need to check
whether --verify works for me (from the manual I thought I need to
specify full reference names).
$ git checkout -f --end-of-options HEAD~1 -- afile.txt
fatal: only one reference expected, 2 given.
I think this is the same KEEP_DASHDASH problem as with git-reset.
I also found another problem:
$ git format-patch --end-of-options -1
fatal: option '-1' must come before non-option arguments
Where -1 is the number of commits here...
Best,
Sven
