From 500b97e4bb184c954a52550843e6314ecf97a208 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Fredrik Kuivinen <freku045@student.liu.se>
Date: Sun, 2 Oct 2005 17:33:38 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Teach git-ls-files about '--' to denote end of options.

Useful if you have a file whose name starts with a dash.

Signed-off-by: Fredrik Kuivinen <freku045@student.liu.se>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
---
 Documentation/git-ls-files.txt |  9 +++++-
 ls-files.c                     |  6 +++-
 t/t3002-ls-files-dashpath.sh   | 69 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 3 files changed, 82 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
 create mode 100755 t/t3002-ls-files-dashpath.sh

diff --git a/Documentation/git-ls-files.txt b/Documentation/git-ls-files.txt
index 591f4ed462..87cc362ad8 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-ls-files.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-ls-files.txt
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ SYNOPSIS
 		(-[c|d|o|i|s|u|k|m])\*
 		[-x <pattern>|--exclude=<pattern>]
 		[-X <file>|--exclude-from=<file>]
-		[--exclude-per-directory=<file>]
+		[--exclude-per-directory=<file>] [--] [<file>]\*
 
 DESCRIPTION
 -----------
@@ -77,6 +77,13 @@ OPTIONS
 	K	to be killed
 	?	other
 
+--::
+	Do not interpret any more arguments as options.
+
+<file>::
+	Files to show. If no files are given all files which match the other
+	specified criteria are shown.
+
 Output
 ------
 show files just outputs the filename unless '--stage' is specified in
diff --git a/ls-files.c b/ls-files.c
index 956be09350..f47114a168 100644
--- a/ls-files.c
+++ b/ls-files.c
@@ -530,7 +530,7 @@ static void verify_pathspec(void)
 static const char ls_files_usage[] =
 	"git-ls-files [-z] [-t] (--[cached|deleted|others|stage|unmerged|killed|modified])* "
 	"[ --ignored ] [--exclude=<pattern>] [--exclude-from=<file>] "
-	"[ --exclude-per-directory=<filename> ]";
+	"[ --exclude-per-directory=<filename> ] [--] [<file>]*";
 
 int main(int argc, const char **argv)
 {
@@ -544,6 +544,10 @@ int main(int argc, const char **argv)
 	for (i = 1; i < argc; i++) {
 		const char *arg = argv[i];
 
+		if (!strcmp(arg, "--")) {
+			i++;
+			break;
+		}
 		if (!strcmp(arg, "-z")) {
 			line_terminator = 0;
 			continue;
diff --git a/t/t3002-ls-files-dashpath.sh b/t/t3002-ls-files-dashpath.sh
new file mode 100755
index 0000000000..b42f1382bc
--- /dev/null
+++ b/t/t3002-ls-files-dashpath.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,69 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+#
+# Copyright (c) 2005 Junio C Hamano
+#
+
+test_description='git-ls-files test (-- to terminate the path list).
+
+This test runs git-ls-files --others with the following on the
+filesystem.
+
+    path0       - a file
+    -foo	- a file with a funny name.
+    --		- another file with a funny name.
+'
+. ./test-lib.sh
+
+test_expect_success \
+	setup \
+	'echo frotz >path0 &&
+	echo frotz >./-foo &&
+	echo frotz >./--'
+
+test_expect_success \
+    'git-ls-files without path restriction.' \
+    'git-ls-files --others >output &&
+     diff -u output - <<EOF
+--
+-foo
+output
+path0
+EOF
+'
+
+test_expect_success \
+    'git-ls-files with path restriction.' \
+    'git-ls-files --others path0 >output &&
+	diff -u output - <<EOF
+path0
+EOF
+'
+
+test_expect_success \
+    'git-ls-files with path restriction with --.' \
+    'git-ls-files --others -- path0 >output &&
+	diff -u output - <<EOF
+path0
+EOF
+'
+
+test_expect_success \
+    'git-ls-files with path restriction with -- --.' \
+    'git-ls-files --others -- -- >output &&
+	diff -u output - <<EOF
+--
+EOF
+'
+
+test_expect_success \
+    'git-ls-files with no path restriction.' \
+    'git-ls-files --others -- >output &&
+	diff -u output - <<EOF
+--
+-foo
+output
+path0
+EOF
+'
+
+test_done
-- 
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