Merge branch 'jk/eoo'

The command line parser learned "--end-of-options" notation; the
standard convention for scripters to have hardcoded set of options
first on the command line, and force the command to treat end-user
input as non-options, has been to use "--" as the delimiter, but
that would not work for commands that use "--" as a delimiter
between revs and pathspec.

* jk/eoo:
  gitcli: document --end-of-options
  parse-options: allow --end-of-options as a synonym for "--"
  revision: allow --end-of-options to end option parsing

Documentation/gitcli.txt

@@ -37,6 +37,12 @@ arguments.  Here are the rules:
    file called HEAD in your work tree, `git diff HEAD` is ambiguous, and
    you have to say either `git diff HEAD --` or `git diff -- HEAD` to
    disambiguate.
+
+ * Because `--` disambiguates revisions and paths in some commands, it
+   cannot be used for those commands to separate options and revisions.
+   You can use `--end-of-options` for this (it also works for commands
+   that do not distinguish between revisions in paths, in which case it
+   is simply an alias for `--`).
 +
 When writing a script that is expected to handle random user-input, it is
 a good practice to make it explicit which arguments are which by placing

parse-options.c

@@ -780,7 +780,8 @@ int parse_options_step(struct parse_opt_ctx_t *ctx,
 			continue;
 		}
 
-		if (!arg[2]) { /* "--" */
+		if (!arg[2] /* "--" */ ||
+		    !strcmp(arg + 2, "end-of-options")) {
 			if (!(ctx->flags & PARSE_OPT_KEEP_DASHDASH)) {
 				ctx->argc--;
 				ctx->argv++;

revision.c

@@ -2523,6 +2523,7 @@ int setup_revisions(int argc, const char **argv, struct rev_info *revs, struct s
 	int i, flags, left, seen_dashdash, got_rev_arg = 0, revarg_opt;
 	struct argv_array prune_data = ARGV_ARRAY_INIT;
 	const char *submodule = NULL;
+	int seen_end_of_options = 0;
 
 	if (opt)
 		submodule = opt->submodule;
@@ -2552,7 +2553,7 @@ int setup_revisions(int argc, const char **argv, struct rev_info *revs, struct s
 		revarg_opt |= REVARG_CANNOT_BE_FILENAME;
 	for (left = i = 1; i < argc; i++) {
 		const char *arg = argv[i];
-		if (*arg == '-') {
+		if (!seen_end_of_options && *arg == '-') {
 			int opts;
 
 			opts = handle_revision_pseudo_opt(submodule,
@@ -2574,6 +2575,11 @@ int setup_revisions(int argc, const char **argv, struct rev_info *revs, struct s
 				continue;
 			}
 
+			if (!strcmp(arg, "--end-of-options")) {
+				seen_end_of_options = 1;
+				continue;
+			}
+
 			opts = handle_revision_opt(revs, argc - i, argv + i,
 						   &left, argv, opt);
 			if (opts > 0) {

t/t0040-parse-options.sh

@@ -399,4 +399,11 @@ test_expect_success 'GIT_TEST_DISALLOW_ABBREVIATED_OPTIONS works' '
 		test-tool parse-options --ye
 '
 
+test_expect_success '--end-of-options treats remainder as args' '
+	test-tool parse-options \
+	    --expect="verbose: -1" \
+	    --expect="arg 00: --verbose" \
+	    --end-of-options --verbose
+'
+
 test_done

t/t4202-log.sh

@@ -1707,4 +1707,11 @@ test_expect_success '--exclude-promisor-objects does not BUG-crash' '
 	test_must_fail git log --exclude-promisor-objects source-a
 '
 
+test_expect_success 'log --end-of-options' '
+       git update-ref refs/heads/--source HEAD &&
+       git log --end-of-options --source >actual &&
+       git log >expect &&
+       test_cmp expect actual
+'
+
 test_done

t/t6000-rev-list-misc.sh

@@ -140,4 +140,12 @@ test_expect_success '--header shows a NUL after each commit' '
 	test_cmp expect actual
 '
 
+test_expect_success 'rev-list --end-of-options' '
+	git update-ref refs/heads/--output=yikes HEAD &&
+	git rev-list --end-of-options --output=yikes >actual &&
+	test_path_is_missing yikes &&
+	git rev-list HEAD >expect &&
+	test_cmp expect actual
+'
+
 test_done