Github user vladimir-kotikov commented on the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/cordova-android/pull/248#issuecomment-175576742
@Mitko-Kerezov, my bad, i missed you name in CLA list
Regarding the
> the usage of -- basically suggests "I want to stop passing options and
start passing actual arguments - filenames, etc"
I'd say it tells "do not consider the options behind me, just pass them to
underlying script" (see, for example, [istanbul
docs](https://github.com/gotwarlost/istanbul#the-cover-command) and [`npm run`
help](https://docs.npmjs.com/cli/run-script#description)).
There is two possible ways to run build: `platforms/android/cordova/build
--ant` and `cordova build android -- --ant` usage. In the first case `--`
delimiter is not needed, indeed, because you're running the script directly,
but in the second it means that CLI will ignore these options and just pass
them to android's `build`.
It is also still necessary for compatibility reasons (IMO, changing the way
how CLI arguments are treated is a breaking change).
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