From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Heikki Orsila Subject: Re: [PATCH] Make git-clone obey "--" (end argument parsing) Date: Fri, 2 Nov 2007 16:21:50 +0200 Message-ID: <20071102142150.GD9632@jolt.modeemi.cs.tut.fi> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: Junio C Hamano X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Nov 02 15:22:11 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1InxPT-0007rO-NC for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Fri, 02 Nov 2007 15:22:08 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753752AbXKBOVy (ORCPT ); Fri, 2 Nov 2007 10:21:54 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753770AbXKBOVx (ORCPT ); Fri, 2 Nov 2007 10:21:53 -0400 Received: from mail.cs.tut.fi ([130.230.4.42]:54349 "EHLO mail.cs.tut.fi" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753656AbXKBOVx (ORCPT ); Fri, 2 Nov 2007 10:21:53 -0400 Received: from amavis2.cs.tut.fi (amavis2.cs.tut.fi [130.230.4.70]) by mail.cs.tut.fi (Postfix) with ESMTP id 36C8B101F5; Fri, 2 Nov 2007 16:21:52 +0200 (EET) Received: from mail.cs.tut.fi ([130.230.4.42]) by amavis2.cs.tut.fi (amavis2.cs.tut.fi [130.230.4.70]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with ESMTP id 04578-04; Fri, 2 Nov 2007 16:21:51 +0200 (EET) Received: from modeemi.modeemi.cs.tut.fi (modeemi.modeemi.cs.tut.fi [130.230.72.134]) by mail.cs.tut.fi (Postfix) with ESMTP id 972CF101ED; Fri, 2 Nov 2007 16:21:51 +0200 (EET) Received: from jolt.modeemi.cs.tut.fi (jolt.modeemi.cs.tut.fi [130.230.72.144]) by modeemi.modeemi.cs.tut.fi (Postfix) with ESMTP id 65E6A4E344; Fri, 2 Nov 2007 16:21:51 +0200 (EET) Received: by jolt.modeemi.cs.tut.fi (Postfix, from userid 16311) id 2C61B4F95F; Fri, 2 Nov 2007 16:21:50 +0200 (EET) Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.2 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Junio C Hamano wrote: > I do not think this breaks anything, but does it _help_ > anything in practice? > > What kind of breakage does this patch fix? It doesn't fix anything, but it is a good usability standard to obey --. I was creating a script that would _automatically_ clone repositories of other users. As a little bit pedantic shell script writer I added "--" and noticed that git clone doesn't handle that, although it's expected behavior from many tools. -- Heikki Orsila Barbie's law: heikki.orsila@iki.fi "Math is hard, let's go shopping!" http://www.iki.fi/shd