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git arguments that start with - or -- are not able to be passed.

For example:

$ ambit git status -v

This returns

error: Found argument '-v' which wasn't expected, or isn't valid in this context

USAGE:
    ambit git <GIT_ARGUMENTS>...

For more information try --help

Basically, the clap argument parsing thinks that -v is a potential argument to ambit rather than an additional git argument. The intended behavior of the command is the output of git status -v (verbose flag) on the dotfile repository.

It's not very nice to have to keep rerunning ambit check over and over again just to fix all the errors in my config. The parser should be able to report multiple errors (that are useful!) at once.

Removing this restriction will make config files more concise in the case where a file should be ignored if it doesn't match any platform.

It's kind of annoying to have to modify two lines every time I want to add a new variant:

[
    a,
+   b,
+   new
]

I should just be able to keep my variants as:

[
   a,
   b,
]

and thereby only modify one line.