[belovedeagle]

Could this not have been fixed by prefixing the '--' argument on the command line, and requiring that all ssh implementations must implement that in order to be compatible?

Seriously, why are we still dealing with what amounts to a quoting issue in 2017?

[cyphar]

Because git is implemented as a series of scripts around some core C (or Perl) programs. Really cool project, horrible architecture. I don't use Mercurial, but it's kinda nice that they only use one language.