Cornelius Weig <cornelius.weig@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > 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? I meant only in the documentation, but "you gave me a no-op option" warning would not hurt. I do not care too deeply either way.