Why does Git choose "git --bare init xxx" to "git init --bare xxx"?

IMO --bare is an option to Git's init command so it should be git init --bare xxx.

But why Git choose "git --bare init xxx" to "git in开发者_StackOverflowit --bare xxx"?

You can pass --bare as an option to git-init, but --bare is actually also an option you can pass to git itself, causing it to treat the repository as a bare repository.