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=C3=86var Arnfj=C3=B6r=C3=B0 Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> writes:

>>> But when GNU came around its option parser was generally happy to acc=
ept
>>> options and args in either order. E.g. these both work with GNU
>>> coreutils, but the latter will fail on FreeBSD and various other
>>> capital-U UNIX-es:
>>>
>>>     touch foo; rm -v foo
>>>     touch foo; rm foo -v
>
> This is only an approximate list, but:

Don't waste your time on this, and instead spend on something more
useful.  What I gave wrt gitcli.txt in an earlier message is final.