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From: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
To: "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>
Cc: Git Mailing list <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: is there a stylistic preference for a trailing "--" on a command?
Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2017 10:12:39 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAGZ79kavxFA_wBzcSbR8LT4uZGkdv4c07ZMfE4TK0tkooMGg6Q@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.21.1711100855140.3617@DESKTOP-1GPMCEJ>

On Fri, Nov 10, 2017 at 5:57 AM, Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca> wrote:
>
>   just noticed these examples in "man git-bisect":
>
> EXAMPLES
>   $ git bisect start HEAD v1.2 --      # HEAD is bad, v1.2 is good
>   ...
>   $ git bisect start HEAD origin --    # HEAD is bad, origin is good
>   ...
>   $ git bisect start HEAD HEAD~10 --   # culprit is among the last 10
>
> is there some rationale or stylistic significance to those trailing
> "--" on those commands? i assume they have no effect, just curious as
> to why they're there.

By having the -- there, it is clear that the strings are ref specs and not files
of such a name. (Who would want to store a file named HEAD~10 in their
repo?)

  reply	other threads:[~2017-11-10 18:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-11-10 13:57 is there a stylistic preference for a trailing "--" on a command? Robert P. J. Day
2017-11-10 18:12 ` Stefan Beller [this message]
2017-11-11 15:39   ` Jeff King
2017-11-12  1:18     ` Junio C Hamano

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