* [BUG] potential error in parsing git checkout options?
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@ 2015-05-29 10:30 ` Guillaume Pages
2015-05-29 12:23 ` Matthieu Moy
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From: Guillaume Pages @ 2015-05-29 10:30 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: git
Cc: Matthieu Moy, Remi Lespinet, Remi Galan, Antoine Delaite,
Louis-Alexandre Stuber
Git version : 2.4.1.652.g8fd8657
When we run git checkout -babar, we would expect an error message like
"unknown switch 'a' " and we get "Switched to a new branch 'abar'". We
are not sure since we don't entirely understand the syntax -b <branch>
which is shown in the documentation, but as average users, we found it
a bit surprising.
Guillaume Pagès
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* Re: [BUG] potential error in parsing git checkout options?
2015-05-29 10:30 ` [BUG] potential error in parsing git checkout options? Guillaume Pages
@ 2015-05-29 12:23 ` Matthieu Moy
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From: Matthieu Moy @ 2015-05-29 12:23 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Guillaume Pages
Cc: git, Remi Lespinet, Remi Galan, Antoine Delaite,
Louis-Alexandre Stuber
Guillaume Pages <guillaume.pages@ensimag.grenoble-inp.fr> writes:
> Git version : 2.4.1.652.g8fd8657
>
> When we run git checkout -babar, we would expect an error message like
> "unknown switch 'a' " and we get "Switched to a new branch 'abar'".
Yes, the option-parser accepts sticked form (-bbranch) and unsticked (-b
branch). This is the convention with most Unix commands (try "grep -e
foo" Vs "grep -efoo").
It gets more confusing for "git -amend" Vs "git --amend", which got a
special-case to avoid confusion (strictly speaking, it should have been
equivalent to "git commit -a -m end").
--
Matthieu Moy
http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/
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