From: Alexandr Miloslavskiy <alexandr.miloslavskiy@xxxxxxxxxxx> I forgot this in my previous patch `--pathspec-from-file` for `git commit` [1]. When both `--pathspec-from-file` and `--all` were specified, `--all` took precedence and `--pathspec-from-file` was ignored. Before `--pathspec-from-file` was implemented, this case was prevented by this check in `parse_and_validate_options()` : die(_("paths '%s ...' with -a does not make sense"), argv[0]); It is unfortunate that these two cases are disconnected. This came as result of how the code was laid out before my patches, where `pathspec` is parsed outside of `parse_and_validate_options()`. This branch is already full of refactoring patches and I did not dare to go for another one. Fix by mirroring `die()` for `--pathspec-from-file` as well. [1] Commit e440fc58 ("commit: support the --pathspec-from-file option" 2019-11-19) Co-authored-by: Phillip Wood <phillip.wood123@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Alexandr Miloslavskiy <alexandr.miloslavskiy@xxxxxxxxxxx> --- builtin/commit.c | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) diff --git a/builtin/commit.c b/builtin/commit.c index 2db2ad0de4..893a9f29b2 100644 --- a/builtin/commit.c +++ b/builtin/commit.c @@ -347,6 +347,9 @@ static const char *prepare_index(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix if (interactive) die(_("--pathspec-from-file is incompatible with --interactive/--patch")); + if (all) + die(_("--pathspec-from-file with -a does not make sense")); + if (pathspec.nr) die(_("--pathspec-from-file is incompatible with pathspec arguments")); -- gitgitgadget