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DO NOT REPLY [Bug 48823] New: Recognize -- to signal end of options and beginning of target names

https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=48823

           Summary: Recognize -- to signal end of options and beginning of
                    target names
           Product: Ant
           Version: 1.8.0
          Platform: All
        OS/Version: All
            Status: NEW
          Severity: enhancement
          Priority: P2
         Component: Core
        AssignedTo: notifications@ant.apache.org
        ReportedBy: jglick@netbeans.org


All getopt-based tools permit -- to be placed in a command's argument list to
indicate that all options have been passed and that further arguments are
"regular" items such as filenames.

In the case of Ant, any subsequent items should be interpreted as target names.

This would allow expert users to invoke targets whose name begins with a dash.
Conventionally these should be hidden, but on occasion you want to run them
e.g. to test that they function correctly, even when in normal usage they
should only ever be called from another target.

It would also be useful from scripts or IDEs that launch Ant using the command
line (rather than embedded) and want to pass a specific list of targets without
fear of some of them being misinterpreted as options.

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DO NOT REPLY [Bug 48823] Recognize -- to signal end of options and beginning of target names

Posted by bu...@apache.org.
https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=48823

Matt Benson <mb...@apache.org> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|NEW                         |RESOLVED
         Resolution|                            |DUPLICATE

--- Comment #1 from Matt Benson <mb...@apache.org> 2010-02-26 15:15:40 UTC ---


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 24231 ***

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