git's –end-of-options Flag

metadat•about 1 hour ago

Does anyone know why git broke the long standing convention of "--" early on? Kind of a nightmare for humans to use.

Remembering app-specific one-offs is kind of the worst!

doctoboggan•about 1 hour ago

git's data model is incredibly powerful and flexible, but its UX is famously... interesting:

https://stevelosh.com/blog/2013/04/git-koans/

epistasis•30 minutes ago

Since it separates out the pathspec, doesn't that match the long standing convention?

p-e-w•about 1 hour ago

When something appears to be poorly designed, then the deeper explanation is often that it’s indeed poorly designed.

yobert•about 1 hour ago

So I should name my next branch ‘--‘ is what I'm hearing :)

_blk•about 1 hour ago

> git log --end-of-options "$rev" -- "$path",

Argh, that's when I wished for object oriented shells. Powershell sure isn't perfect but objects encoding their own meaning really helps differentiate those cases (but it may not always help the user if types aren't clear to the reader)

eru•44 minutes ago

I don't think you need object orientation for that. Haskell and Rust solve these problems also just fine, without any OOP in sight.

_blk•18 minutes ago

Hmm, not sure I understand. How are those shell based?

I agree that rust and haskell are not your typical OO (or not OO at all in a traditional sense) I guess my poorly worded claim was less focused on the OO nature of psh than on the typization (which both of these also do) - if you knew what type $rev and $path are, it's easier to distinguish intent, whether objects or not.

ButlerianJihad•41 minutes ago

https://m.xkcd.com/1597/

By the way, something munched the article title. An emdash is incorrect command-line usage. It’s supposed to be a double hyphen.

wafflemaker•36 minutes ago

From the title I've learned that git uses an em-dash instead of double dash as options delimiter. Thanks for pointing out that the title was wrong -- I've never had a need to use -- with git, so didn't know that it doesn't work.

ButlerianJihad•21 minutes ago

I'm sorry, you've learned what now?

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