* [BUG] potential error in parsing git checkout options? [not found] <156258182.144342.1432895411512.JavaMail.zimbra@ensimag.grenoble-inp.fr> @ 2015-05-29 10:30 ` Guillaume Pages 2015-05-29 12:23 ` Matthieu Moy 0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread From: Guillaume Pages @ 2015-05-29 10:30 UTC (permalink / raw) To: git Cc: Matthieu Moy, Remi Lespinet, Remi Galan, Antoine Delaite, Louis-Alexandre Stuber Git version : 2.4.1.652.g8fd8657 When we run git checkout -babar, we would expect an error message like "unknown switch 'a' " and we get "Switched to a new branch 'abar'". We are not sure since we don't entirely understand the syntax -b <branch> which is shown in the documentation, but as average users, we found it a bit surprising. Guillaume Pagès ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 2+ messages in thread
* Re: [BUG] potential error in parsing git checkout options? 2015-05-29 10:30 ` [BUG] potential error in parsing git checkout options? Guillaume Pages @ 2015-05-29 12:23 ` Matthieu Moy 0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread From: Matthieu Moy @ 2015-05-29 12:23 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Guillaume Pages Cc: git, Remi Lespinet, Remi Galan, Antoine Delaite, Louis-Alexandre Stuber Guillaume Pages <guillaume.pages@ensimag•grenoble-inp.fr> writes: > Git version : 2.4.1.652.g8fd8657 > > When we run git checkout -babar, we would expect an error message like > "unknown switch 'a' " and we get "Switched to a new branch 'abar'". Yes, the option-parser accepts sticked form (-bbranch) and unsticked (-b branch). This is the convention with most Unix commands (try "grep -e foo" Vs "grep -efoo"). It gets more confusing for "git -amend" Vs "git --amend", which got a special-case to avoid confusion (strictly speaking, it should have been equivalent to "git commit -a -m end"). -- Matthieu Moy http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/ ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 2+ messages in thread
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