From c5a736f2c9e9e6f35f1cf61581f21ecee6f25885 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: 9cel <9based@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2025 06:35:42 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] docs: document the behavior of -- in the curl command line

Closes #16053
---
 docs/cmdline-opts/_OPTIONS.md | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/docs/cmdline-opts/_OPTIONS.md b/docs/cmdline-opts/_OPTIONS.md
index b6b75b3f34..c4493647a8 100644
--- a/docs/cmdline-opts/_OPTIONS.md
+++ b/docs/cmdline-opts/_OPTIONS.md
@@ -24,6 +24,10 @@ When --next is used, it resets the parser state and you start again with a
 clean option state, except for the options that are global. Global options
 retain their values and meaning even after --next.
 
+The first argument that is exactly two dashes (`--`), marks the end of
+options; any argument after the end of options is interpreted as a URL
+argument even if it starts with a dash.
+
 The following options are global: `%GLOBALS`.
 
 # ALL OPTIONS
-- 
2.47.3