Heikki Orsila [off-list ref] writes:
Junio C Hamano wrote:
quoted
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,...
The first real parameter will always be the remote repo
URL^Wlocator, and sane people won't have anything that begin
with a hyphen for that, will they?
So the change is only for consistency's sake.
I am not saying that is a bad thing. I just wanted to
understand if there was a real breakage there.
Thanks. Will apply.