Re: [PATCH v2 1/1] advice: add --no-advice global option

> On Mon, Apr 29, 2024 at 2:00 AM Dragan Simic <dsimic@manjaro.org> 
> wrote:
>> On 2024-04-29 07:36, Dragan Simic wrote:
>> > Regarding what to do if those two options are both supplied,
>> > it's simple, just error out with an appropriate error message.
>> > There are already similar situations in the code, e.g. with
>> > the -k and --rfc options for git-format-patch(1).
>> 
>> Actually, the -p/--paginate and -P/--no-pager options can
>> currently be supplied together, which isn't the expected
>> behavior.  I'm preparing a patch that will cover this as
>> a case of the mutual option exclusivity.
> 
> Please don't.
> 
> "Last wins" is an intentionally-supported mode of operation for many
> Git options. It allows you to override an option which may have been
> supplied by some other entity/mechanism. For instance, you may have a
> Git alias, say `git mylog`, which employs --paginate, but you want to
> avoid pagination on a particular run, so you invoke it as `git mylog
> --no-pager`.