i noticed git repo create or clone has —quiet branch in it, cannot check out or , don't know comes from, ideas? i regularly use github, source tree (mac version), git command line, any suggestions appreciated, edit2: noted @dcoder first character not regular hyphen or minus sign, makes more suspicious, edit: if git branch get: * ali master —quiet if git checkout -quit or git checkout "-quit" or git checkout \-quit or git checkout -- --quit or anyother variant come mind get: error: pathspec '-quiet' did not match file(s) known git. i looked ~/.gitconfig file , did not find related this, found culprit, should have guessed it, few days back, copied , pasted config script webpage fish config file, , happens in addition ' , " replaced similar looking characters - replaced had missed it, thanks @dcoder did grep on , found in fish config file, case closed,