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Re: Git log --tags isn't working as expected

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Aug 2, 2017, 20:28 UTC
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Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:
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> By the way, I noticed something funny that I forgot to mention:
>
>   git log --tags=does-not-exist
>
> shows HEAD, because the logic to kick in the default only asks "were we
> given any refs to start the traversal?". I think it probably should
> consider a wildcard with no matches to override the default, and show
> nothing.
>
> I haven't decided if it should be empty-but-success, or give an error.

I agree. The same for --branches, --glob, etc. I'd say it should behave just like "git log HEAD..HEAD".

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