On Wed, Aug 02, 2017 at 01:28:38PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: > 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". Thanks for confirming. That's the way I lean, too. And I found some related tests for rev-list in t6018 that expect that, too (but are currently marked to fail). I'll send some patches in a minute, but I'll start a new thread, as we've drifted off-topic for this one. -Peff
