Heikki Orsila <shd@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > Junio C Hamano wrote: >> I do not think this breaks anything, but does it _help_ >> anything in practice? >> >> What kind of breakage does this patch fix? > > It doesn't fix anything, but it is a good usability standard to obey --. > I was creating a script that would _automatically_ clone repositories of > other users. As a little bit pedantic shell script writer I added "--" > and noticed that git clone doesn't handle that,... The first real parameter will always be the remote repo URL^Wlocator, and sane people won't have anything that begin with a hyphen for that, will they? So the change is only for consistency's sake. I am not saying that is a bad thing. I just wanted to understand if there was a real breakage there. Thanks. Will apply. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
