Re: [PATCH v2 11/16] tag: implicitly supply --list given another list-like option

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mar 21, 2017, 18:48 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqqk27ipitw.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <20170321125901.10652-12-avarab@gmail.com>

Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason  <avarab@gmail.com> writes:

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> Spelunking through the history via:
>
>     git log --reverse -p -G'only allowed with' -- '*builtin*tag*c'
>
> Reveals that there was no good reason for not allowing this in the
> first place. The --contains option added in 32c35cfb1e ("git-tag: Add
> --contains option", 2009-01-26) made this an error,. All the other

s/,././

> subsequent list-like options that were added copied its pattern of
> making this usage an error.

Good digging, and I do agree that this is a good change.

Thanks.

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