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From: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Subject: Re: [msysGit] git rev-parse broken on Git for Windows
Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2010 10:26:48 +0200 (CEST)
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Hi,

On Thu, 29 Jul 2010, Joshua Jensen wrote:

>  9c7304e3e39ed397b3cc6566573333e2698a52b4 (print the usage string on stdout
> instead of stderr) and then 47e9cd28f8a404a0d6293935252ddca5fc243931
> (parseopt: wrap rev-parse --parseopt usage for eval consumption) break the
> following line from the manual and 'git subtree' on msysGit:
> 
> eval $(echo "$OPTS_SPEC" | git rev-parse --parseopt -- "$@" || echo exit $?)

Both commits are from Junio's 'next' branch. I Cc:ed the authors of both 
commits.

> Running 'git revert' on both changelists causes the 'git rev-parse 
> --parseopt' to work again.
> 
> What was 9c7304e trying to solve?

Probably it tried to follow some GNU convention or some such. It does not 
say in the commit message, and neither in the code.

Thanks,
Johannes