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From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
To: Jacob Keller <jacob.keller@gmail.com>
Cc: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
	Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>,
	Graeme Geldenhuys <graemeg@gmail.com>,
	Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Git's inconsistent command line options
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2015 08:28:36 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <877foief6z.fsf@igel.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+P7+xoQnq-nCP=_Wtfh39fxxwTvEo+m-=o7fcmrdyaBBfbt8A@mail.gmail.com> (Jacob Keller's message of "Tue, 25 Aug 2015 21:09:41 -0700")

Jacob Keller <jacob.keller@gmail.com> writes:

> "if you really mean to create a tag named create, use
>
> git tag -- create master

In all other uses of -- refs must be put on the *left* side.

Andreas.

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"And now for something completely different."

  reply	other threads:[~2015-08-26  6:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-08-25  8:01 Git's inconsistent command line options Graeme Geldenhuys
2015-08-25 15:13 ` Junio C Hamano
2015-08-25 21:49   ` Jacob Keller
2015-08-25 22:06     ` Stefan Beller
2015-08-25 22:21       ` Jacob Keller
2015-08-25 23:43       ` Junio C Hamano
2015-08-26  1:30         ` Hilco Wijbenga
2015-08-26 17:56           ` Junio C Hamano
2015-08-26 18:10             ` Jacob Keller
2015-08-26 20:48               ` Junio C Hamano
2015-08-26 22:52               ` Philip Oakley
2015-08-26 23:02                 ` Jacob Keller
2015-08-26 23:03                   ` Jacob Keller
2015-08-26  4:09         ` Jacob Keller
2015-08-26  6:28           ` Andreas Schwab [this message]
2015-08-26  6:33             ` Jacob Keller
2015-08-31 10:10         ` Duy Nguyen
2015-08-31 14:25           ` Barry Warsaw
2015-09-01  9:28             ` David Aguilar
2015-09-01 14:19               ` Barry Warsaw
2015-09-01 16:42                 ` Junio C Hamano
2015-09-01 17:50                   ` Barry Warsaw
2015-09-01 17:56                     ` Stefan Beller
2015-09-09  9:42                       ` Michael J Gruber
2015-09-09  9:42               ` Michael J Gruber

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