"git archive --list blah" should notice an extra command line parameter that goes unused. Make it so. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> --- * This was done to convince myself that even though cmd_archive() calls parse_options with PARSE_OPT_KEEP_UNKNOWN_OPT and then uses the resulting argc/argv without apparent filtering of the "--end-of-options" thing, it is correctly handling it, either locally or remotely. - locally, write_archive() uses parse_archive_args(), which calls parse_options() without KEEP_UNKNOWN_OPT and "--end-of-options" is handled there just fine. - remotely, run_remote_archiver() relays the local parameters, including "--end-of-options" via the "argument" packet. Then the arguments are assembled into a strvec and used by the upload-archive running on the other side to spawn an upload-archive--writer process with. cmd_upload_archive_writer() then makes the same write_archive() call; "--end-of-options" would still be in argv[] if the original "git archive --remote" invocation had one, but it is consumed the same way as the local case in write_archive() by calling parse_archive_args(). I do not like the remote error behaviour this one adds at all. Do we use a more proper mechanism to propagate a remote error back for other subcommands we can reuse here? archive.c | 7 +++++++ t/t5000-tar-tree.sh | 14 ++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 21 insertions(+) diff --git c/archive.c w/archive.c index 9aeaf2bd87..3244e9f9f2 100644 --- c/archive.c +++ w/archive.c @@ -641,6 +641,13 @@ static int parse_archive_args(int argc, const char **argv, base = ""; if (list) { + if (argc) { + if (!is_remote) + die(_("extra command line parameter '%s'"), *argv); + else + printf("!ERROR! extra command line parameter '%s'\n", + *argv); + } for (i = 0; i < nr_archivers; i++) if (!is_remote || archivers[i]->flags & ARCHIVER_REMOTE) printf("%s\n", archivers[i]->name); diff --git c/t/t5000-tar-tree.sh w/t/t5000-tar-tree.sh index 918a2fc7c6..04592f45b0 100755 --- c/t/t5000-tar-tree.sh +++ w/t/t5000-tar-tree.sh @@ -124,6 +124,20 @@ test_expect_success 'setup' ' EOF ' +test_expect_success '--list notices extra parameters' ' + test_must_fail git archive --list blah && + # NEEDSWORK: remote error does not result in non-zero + # exit, which we might want to change later. + git archive --remote=. --list blah >remote-out && + grep "!ERROR! " remote-out +' + +test_expect_success 'end-of-options is correctly eaten' ' + git archive --list --end-of-options && + git archive --remote=. --list --end-of-options >remote-out && + ! grep "!ERROR! " remote-out +' + test_expect_success 'populate workdir' ' mkdir a && echo simple textfile >a/a &&