On Fri, Nov 10, 2017 at 5:57 AM, Robert P. J. Day <rpj...@crashcourse.ca> wrote: > > just noticed these examples in "man git-bisect": > > EXAMPLES > $ git bisect start HEAD v1.2 -- # HEAD is bad, v1.2 is good > ... > $ git bisect start HEAD origin -- # HEAD is bad, origin is good > ... > $ git bisect start HEAD HEAD~10 -- # culprit is among the last 10 > > is there some rationale or stylistic significance to those trailing > "--" on those commands? i assume they have no effect, just curious as > to why they're there.
By having the -- there, it is clear that the strings are ref specs and not files of such a name. (Who would want to store a file named HEAD~10 in their repo?)
