Jonathan Tan [off-list ref] writes:
quoted
Hmph, don't we quote these in the trace output, requiring us to grep
for "'--not' '--all'" or somesuch?
I thought so too, but this was changed in commit 1fbdab21bb ("trace:
avoid unnecessary quoting", 2018-01-16).
Yup; fortunately or unfortunately, that and the "partial clone"
stuff are among the differences between v2.16 track and newer, so we
can just forget about v2.16.x and lower and target this fix to
maint-2.17 and above.