From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2017 18:48:11 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 11/16] tag: implicitly supply --list given another list-like option
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:

> 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.