# git --merge and option parsing 2 messages from 2017-05-23 to 2017-05-23. Participants: Holst, Henrik, Jeff King. Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/46032 ## Holst, Henrik, 2017-05-23 10:17 Subject: git --merge and option parsing Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/BLUPR0701MB75463EE0B8ADC559BBE02A282F90%40BLUPR0701MB754.namprd07.prod.outlook.com ``` Hi, I am not sure if this is a bug but it was surprising to me so I thought I'd report it here. I added `ui.column=auto` to my gitconfig and that does not work so well with pipes so I want to use `--no-column` option. I was a bit surprised that this does not work? It seems that `--merged` picks up `--no-column` as a commit reference instead it being parsed as an option. hholst@fb-hholst3 ~/src/a3c-batch (feature/NetworkHandler) [conda:tensorflow] $ git branch --no-column --merged * feature/NetworkHandler [snip] hholst@fb-hholst3 ~/src/a3c-batch (feature/NetworkHandler) [conda:tensorflow] $ git branch --merged --no-column fatal: malformed object name --no-column hholst@fb-hholst3 ~/src/a3c-batch (feature/NetworkHandler) [conda:tensorflow] $ git --version git version 2.13.0 Best, Henrik Holst (Not on the list) ``` ## Jeff King, 2017-05-23 11:39 Subject: Re: git --merge and option parsing Message-ID: <20170523113930.tqg4te7dfqr3f7s2@sigill.intra.peff.net> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20170523113930.tqg4te7dfqr3f7s2%40sigill.intra.peff.net In-Reply-To: ``` On Tue, May 23, 2017 at 10:17:18AM +0000, Holst, Henrik wrote: > I am not sure if this is a bug but it was surprising to me so I > thought I'd report it here. > > I added `ui.column=auto` to my gitconfig and that does not work so > well with pipes so I want to use `--no-column` option. I was a bit > surprised that this does not work? It seems that `--merged` picks up > `--no-column` as a commit reference instead it being parsed as an > option. That's behaving as expected. The --merged option has an optional argument, which defaults to "HEAD". If you provide another argument (even if it looks like an option to you), then it gets attached to --merged. As you saw, "git branch --no-column --merged" works, but so would "git branch --merged HEAD --no-column". -Peff ```