On Wed, Aug 02, 2017 at 09:23:36AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> writes: > > > 3. Use --simplify-by-decoration to show a particular range of commits, > > but limit to ones that actually have a ref pointing at them. Like: > > > > git log <COMMIT_ID>..HEAD --simplify-by-decoration > > Nit: dashed options come first and then revs and then pathspecs. Well, sort of. It does work just fine, and always has. I always thought we were following the GNU-style liberal option ordering. By the way, I noticed something funny that I forgot to mention: git log --tags=does-not-exist shows HEAD, because the logic to kick in the default only asks "were we given any refs to start the traversal?". I think it probably should consider a wildcard with no matches to override the default, and show nothing. I haven't decided if it should be empty-but-success, or give an error. And if an error, if it is "you tried to give me refs, but they showed nothing" or "you gave me a wildcard that matched nothing". The distinction matters for: git log --tags=does-not-exist --tags=does-exist which currently allows the empty wildcard to be a noop. -Peff
