[SCM-746] Use '--' to separate filenames from revisions within Git

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Incomplete
• Affects Version/s: 1.9
• Component/s: maven-scm-provider-gitexe

Environment

git version 1.7.10.5
Apache Maven 3.0.5 (r01de14724cdef164cd33c7c8c2fe155faf9602da; 2013-02-19 13:51:28+0000)
Java version: 1.7.0_45, vendor: Oracle Corporation
Default locale: en_US, platform encoding: UTF-8
OS name: "linux", version: "2.6.32-358.11.1.el6.x86_64", arch: "amd64", family: "unix"

• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: deckrider
• Created: 10/Apr/14 15:09
• Updated: 11/Aug/18 22:03
• Resolved: 11/Aug/18 22:03

Description

We had a maven multi module project where a module was unfortunately named "master".

This caused a problem when working on the Git master branch:

Provider message: The git-log command failed. Command output: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
From file:///foo/bar * branch master -> FETCH_HEAD
fatal: ambiguous argument 'master': both revision and filename Use '--' to separate filenames from revisions -------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Our workaround was to rename the "master" module to "master-module" and reflect that in the parent pom which lists all the module directories.