alt Hacker NewsBy the way, something munched the article title. An endash is incorrect command-line usage. It’s supposed to be a double hyphen.
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wafflemaker • today at 4:50 AM
From the title I've learned that git uses an em-dash instead of double dash as options delimiter. Thanks for pointing out that the title was wrong -- I've never had a need to use -- with git, so didn't know that it doesn't work.
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Erenay09 • today at 5:35 AM
I'm sure I typed double-hyphen when submitting the post, but probably HN auto-formatted the title. IDK really.
It is an en dash, not an em dash, since it's about as wide as an n.
Some software substitutes a double hyphen -- with an en dash rather than em, and use the triple hyphen --- for the em dash. Perhaps Hacker News' title formatter is one of them.