Remembering app-specific one-offs is kind of the worst!

Argh, that's when I wished for object oriented shells. Powershell sure isn't perfect but objects encoding their own meaning really helps differentiate those cases (but it may not always help the user if types aren't clear to the reader)

By the way, something munched the article title. An emdash is incorrect command-line usage. It’s supposed to be a double hyphen.

I wonder: would it not be better to tell users with those edge cases to fix their problems some other way? To take an example from the article: why does someone have a filename beginning with a dash? Maybe don't do that.

    git cmd --options -- rev -- pathspec

    git cmd --option -- rev --

    git cmd --option revspec -- pathspec