On Sun, Sep 26, 2010 at 3:54 AM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Perhaps you are missing --no-revs. > ... > "--flags" is an afterthought that filters out non-flags in other parts; I > do not think it applied to the "rev" part (i.e. giving --no-revs at the > same time would be a valid workaround if you know you do not want HEAD or > any revision traversal argument) in any released version of git. > i am aware that --no-revs exists and can be used with --flags to ensure that only flag arguments are displayed. The issue is that the documentation currently implies that --flags alone is sufficient to suppress anything that is not a flag when this is not, in fact, the case. If there is some reason --flags should not imply --no-revs, then the documentation should be updated to state: --flags:: -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html