"Mkrtchyan, Tigran" <tigran.mkrtchyan@xxxxxxx> writes: >> But more importantly, I think we should justify why this "not >> allowed" makes sense as the design of the feature. A plausible >> alternative design would simply follow the "last one wins" paradigm, >> ... > This is matter of convention. Oh, if you put it that way, it is quite clear that we should redo this part, as the rest of Git command line processing all pretty much follow "last one wins". I was mostly curious if there was any strong reason why this combination has to be different.