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<h2 id="_description">DESCRIPTION</h2>
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<p>Many Git porcelainish commands take mixture of flags
(i.e. parameters that begin with a dash <em>-</em>) and parameters
meant for the underlying <em>git rev-list</em> command they use internally
and flags and parameters for the other commands they use
downstream of <em>git rev-list</em>.  This command is used to
distinguish between them.<