I have been looking at what git-rev-parse does and could not figure out a way to convince it to give me only arguments with a '-' prefix. Specifically, I wanted to remove the hardcoded -p and -M flags from git-diff-script. Running
$ sh -x git-diff-script -C HEAD^ HEAD reveals that none of the following would pick up "-C" from the command line: rev=($(git-rev-parse --revs-only "$@")) || exit flags=($(git-rev-parse --no-revs --flags "$@")) files=($(git-rev-parse --no-revs --no-flags "$@")) I am not even sure if the current implementation of rev-parse matches what you originally wanted it to do; I suspect it does not. I would like to know what was the intended behaviour first, so that I can enhance it to be usable for my purpose without breaking things. What I want the rev-parse flags to mean is as follows. By "rev argument", I mean what get_sha1() can understand. I have to admit that some flags are what I introduced while I was butchering it without really knowing the original intention: output format: --sq output in a format usable for shell "eval". --symbolic output rev argument in symbolic form, not SHA1. output selection: --flags show only arguments with '-' prefix. --no-flags do not show arguments with '-' prefix. --revs-only show only arguments meant for rev-list. --no-revs show arguments not meant for rev-list. input munging: --default R if no revision, pretend R is given. --not pretend all rev arguments without prefix ^ have prefix ^, and the ones with prefix ^ do not. --all pretend all refs under $GIT_DIR/refs are given on the command line. special: --verify make sure only one rev argument is given, nothing else. I think flags/no-flags and revs-only/no-revs *should* be orthogonal. That is, "rev-parse --flags --no-revs" should give parameters that start with '-' and not meant for rev-list (e.g. '-C' in earlier example); "rev-parse --revs-only --merge-order HEAD Documentation/" should yield "--merge-order HEAD". Also there is an undocumented --show-prefix. What is it? -jc PS. BTW, any response about unsuspecting companies? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html