From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2017 15:55:12 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/8] tag: Change misleading --list <pattern> documentation
Message-ID: <xmqqinn4x7rz.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <20170320034443.wq2uf4yabsxh2nji@sigill.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> I think it's expected to work under the usual last-one-wins option
> parsing. A more subtle case is that:
>
>   git tag -l -d foo
>
> would override "-l" with "-d". That's reasonable under the same rule as
> long as the user knows that the two are mode-selectors. I don't think we
> make that explicit in the documentation, though, so perhaps it isn't
> something users should rely on.

Yup, that is reasonable.