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