On 2024-03-24 at 18:57:21, Tim Landscheidt wrote: > Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> My expectation of least surprise is that "git config > >> section.key --add value" should be equivalent to "git config > >> --add section.key value". > > > You cannot have "--add" as a value by doing so. > > > […] > > The standard way to achieve this would be to use "--", > i. e. "git config section.key --add -- --add" (apparently > even part of POSIX as "Utility Syntax Guidelines", but also > commonly used elsewhere in Git). POSIX mandates that all options come before all non-option arguments. So by that rule, `git config section.key --add value` means that `--add` is a non-option argument, not the option `--add`. Certainly some GNU tools do break the rule, and Git begrudgingly allows it in some cases, but in utilities in general, it isn't allowed. Many non-Linux OSes and non-GNU tools don't allow options to appear after non-option arguments at all. -- brian m. carlson (they/them or he/him) Toronto, Ontario, CA
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