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diff --git a/Documentation/gitcli.txt b/Documentation/gitcli.txt index 1ed3ca33b7..4b32876b6e 100644 --- a/Documentation/gitcli.txt +++ b/Documentation/gitcli.txt @@ -37,6 +37,12 @@ arguments. Here are the rules: file called HEAD in your work tree, `git diff HEAD` is ambiguous, and you have to say either `git diff HEAD --` or `git diff -- HEAD` to disambiguate. + + * Because `--` disambiguates revisions and paths in some commands, it + cannot be used for those commands to separate options and revisions. + You can use `--end-of-options` for this (it also works for commands + that do not distinguish between revisions in paths, in which case it + is simply an alias for `--`). + When writing a script that is expected to handle random user-input, it is a good practice to make it explicit which arguments are which by placing |