Subject: Re: [BUG] redundant error message

From: Junio C Hamano <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 05 Dec 2013 12:00:16 -0800

Jeff King <[email-masked]> writes:

>   $ >foobar
>   $ git rev-parse foobar --
>   foobar
>   --
>   fatal: bad flag '--' used after filename
>
> That's not right.

Hmph, it looks like it is following the usual "zero-or-more dashed
options, zero-or-more revs and then zero-or-one double-dash and then
zero-or-more paths" rule to parse the thing.  "foobar" is a file and
not a rev, so "--" should not be there, no?

Confused why you think it is not right...