Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v1 0/1] ls-remote: inconsistency from the order of args and opts

From: Junio C Hamano <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2022 13:52:11 -0800

Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <[email-masked]> writes:

>>> But when GNU came around its option parser was generally happy to accept
>>> options and args in either order. E.g. these both work with GNU
>>> coreutils, but the latter will fail on FreeBSD and various other
>>> capital-U UNIX-es:
>>>
>>>     touch foo; rm -v foo
>>>     touch foo; rm foo -v
>
> This is only an approximate list, but:

Don't waste your time on this, and instead spend on something more
useful.  What I gave wrt gitcli.txt in an earlier message is final.