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Ignores --prefix

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Assessment

Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
45/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
git, python
Domain
cli

Research direction

Reproduce the documented git explode -p zenspider/zeit_ main zenspider/zeitwerk -d command and inspect how the CLI handles --prefix or -p. Done means the resulting topic branches use the requested prefix instead of names beginning with topic#.

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Description

The command used for #7 was:

% git explode -p zenspider/zeit_ main zenspider/zeitwerk -d

and as you can see, it was creating branches with the names topic#

Dominant language
Python
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Forks
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