On Wed, Oct 17, 2018 at 03:49:47PM +0200, Andreas Gruenbacher wrote: > @@ -2431,7 +2446,11 @@ int setup_revisions(int argc, const char **argv, struct rev_info *revs, struct s > opt->tweak(revs, opt); > if (revs->show_merge) > prepare_show_merge(revs); > - if (revs->def && !revs->pending.nr && !revs->rev_input_given && !got_rev_arg) { > + if (revs->sticky_default) > + cancel_default = has_interesting_revisions(); > + else > + cancel_default = got_rev_arg; > + if (revs->def && !revs->rev_input_given && !cancel_default) { How do you want to handle "maybe has a ref" options like --stdin, --tags, etc? Those set revs->rev_input_given. With the code you have here, rev_input_given overrides any sticky_default decision, and you cannot do this: git log --not --remotes=origin and get the default, because even though you have only UNINTERESTING commits, rev_input_given is true. If you move rev_input_given to the cancel_default line above the final conditional and turn that conditional into: if (revs->def && !cancel_default) then it works. -Peff