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[PATCH v4 02/14] rev-parse doc: use "--" in the --prefix example

From: Richard Hansen <hidden>
Date: 2017-01-09 23:30:17
Subsystem: documentation, the rest · Maintainers: Jonathan Corbet, Linus Torvalds

The "--" argument avoids "ambiguous argument: unknown revision or
path not in the working tree" errors when a pathname argument refers
to a non-existent file.

Signed-off-by: Richard Hansen <redacted>
---
 Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt b/Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt
index b6c6326cd..f1190765f 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt
@@ -91,7 +91,8 @@ repository.  For example:
 ----
 prefix=$(git rev-parse --show-prefix)
 cd "$(git rev-parse --show-toplevel)"
-eval "set -- $(git rev-parse --sq --prefix "$prefix" "$@")"
+eval "set -- $(git rev-parse --sq --prefix "$prefix" -- "$@")"
+shift
 ----
 
 --verify::
-- 
2.11.0.390.gc69c2f50cf-goog

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