Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> writes: > 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. I agree. The same for --branches, --glob, etc. I'd say it should behave just like "git log HEAD..HEAD".