The OpenSSH utilities use getopt(), which according to http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/functions/getopt.html, manual pages on the BSD and Linux systems I checked, and openbsd-compat/getopt.c, stops scanning options when it encounters a "--". Greg Kochanski noted in a Debian bug report that it's useful for reliable scripting purposes to be able to rely on this feature, because it eliminates the possibility that a wildcard or a variable expansion might expand to a valid option. Since it seems generally useful and available, could this feature be documented? Thanks.
That is a standard feature of getopt(3) and therefore I don't think it needs repeating in the documentation of every application that uses it.
I view it as pretty similar to saying that options start with '-'; a small thing and absolutely standard, but it would be very confusing to leave it out. In any case, so many programs roll their own option parsing in one way or another that I don't think it's unreasonable that a user wouldn't be sure that ssh uses getopt without going and grovelling through the source. If you don't want to repeat it, perhaps at least refer to getopt(3) (though it's not wonderful user-level documentation) so that it's clear that ssh uses it?
Change all RESOLVED bug to CLOSED with the exception of the ones fixed post-4.4.