Re: [PATCH 2/2] add [--] to usage of filter-branch

[Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>]

Andreas Heiduk <asheiduk@gmail.com> writes:

> Am 03.06.2017 um 12:17 schrieb Andreas Heiduk:
>> Signed-off-by: Andreas Heiduk <asheiduk@gmail.com>
>> ---
>>  Documentation/git-filter-branch.txt | 3 ++-
>>  git-filter-branch.sh                | 2 +-
>>  2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>> 
>> diff --git a/Documentation/git-filter-branch.txt b/Documentation/git-filter-branch.txt
>> index 45c849d8c..1efdda804 100644
>> --- a/Documentation/git-filter-branch.txt
>> +++ b/Documentation/git-filter-branch.txt
>> @@ -86,7 +86,8 @@ OPTIONS
>>  	This is not a real filter executed for each commit but a one
>>  	time setup just before the loop. Therefore no commit-specific
>>  	variables are defined yet.  Functions or variables defined here
>> -	can be used or modified in the following filter steps.
>> +	can be used or modified in the following filter steps except
>> +	the commit filter, for technical reasons.
>
> I'll move that into the previous commit.

Yeah, the description of "technical limitation" is different from
clarifying the disambiguating "--" in the documentation.

I am curious what the "technical reason" really is, though ;-)