On 01/31/2017 06:08 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote: > I think it is probably a good idea to document the behaviour > (i.e. "--no-create" single-shot from the command line is ignored). > I am not sure we should error out, though, in order to "disallow" > it---a documented silent no-op may be sufficient. Yes, maybe abort on seeing "--no-create-reflog" is a too drastic measure. I presume that the best place to have the documentation would be to print a warning when seeing the ignored argument? Or did you just have man pages and code comment in mind? Cheers, Cornelius