From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "J. Bruce Fields" Subject: gitk handling of -- on commandline? Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2007 23:36:48 -0400 Message-ID: <20070319033648.GA13374@fieldses.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii To: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Mar 19 04:36:53 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HT8fy-0000d1-RW for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Mon, 19 Mar 2007 04:36:51 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965034AbXCSDgu (ORCPT ); Sun, 18 Mar 2007 23:36:50 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S965084AbXCSDgu (ORCPT ); Sun, 18 Mar 2007 23:36:50 -0400 Received: from mail.fieldses.org ([66.93.2.214]:38412 "EHLO fieldses.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965034AbXCSDgt (ORCPT ); Sun, 18 Mar 2007 23:36:49 -0400 Received: from bfields by fieldses.org with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1HT8fw-0003ip-Fs for git@vger.kernel.org; Sun, 18 Mar 2007 23:36:48 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Since I often use "TMP" as a name both for files and branches, I wasn't that suprised recently when gitk TMP complained that "TMP" was ambiguous and asked me to use -- to separate filenames from revisions. I was a bit more surprised when it still did that after I gave it gitk TMP -- I looked through the source code very quickly but it wasn't obvious to me why this was happening. The reverse, gitk -- TMP interestingly doesn't seem to have the same problem. --b.