–end-of-options

Global Tech Thu, 23 Jul 2026 09:41:28 GMT Moderate confidence — 64/100

I was reading through the fix for a package manager CVE last week and ran into a git flag I’d somehow never noticed: --end-of-options.
My first reaction was that some LLM had hallucinated it, but it’s documented in gitcli(7), it was added in git 2.24.0 in November 2019, and it exists because git had already used -- for something else.
In most Unix tools -- marks the end of option parsing, so rm -- -f removes a file called -f rather than passing the force flag.

I was reading through the fix for a package manager CVE last week and ran into a git flag I’d somehow never noticed: --end-of-options.
My first reaction was that some LLM had hallucinated it, but it’s documented in gitcli(7), it was added in git 2.24.0 in November 2019, and it exists because git had already used -- for something else.
In most Unix tools -- marks the end of option parsing, so rm -- -f removes a file called -f rather than passing the force flag.

Sources: Nesbitt