From: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2024 06:04:35 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/1] advice: add --no-advice global option
Message-ID: <CAPig+cRQVD9ZrvBd=49S6=9WsWWNdUWp1u9pADSv17bh_vJGTQ@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <4991578233e75f5a9f096b701c4b5efd@manjaro.org>

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`.