On Tue, Nov 03, 2020 at 10:34:09AM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote: > > On our side, I don't think it would be _wrong_ to catch and disallow the > > combination. But it may be nicer to them if we continue to quietly > > ignore --follow and the pathspec in that case, for working with older > > versions. (OTOH, if I understand correctly they're segfaulting every > > time VS Code is used with v2.29 now, so they may have to accept it as an > > urgent fix anyway). > > So something like this won't harm VS Code more than we currently do, > while telling users what is wrong with their command line? Yeah, I was wondering if we'd want the patch you sent, or if we should turn those die() calls into warning() and disable the flags up front. > We may still want the "silently disable follow" at low-level > protection, but that does not give feedback why the end-user option > is silently ignored, so... I'd be just as happy to leave it out, if we think it isn't triggerable. The segfault would let people know we missed a spot. ;) > diff --git c/builtin/log.c w/builtin/log.c > index 9f939e6cdf..8811084f02 100644 > --- c/builtin/log.c > +++ w/builtin/log.c > @@ -206,6 +206,13 @@ static void cmd_log_init_finish(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix, > if (argc > 1) > die(_("unrecognized argument: %s"), argv[1]); > > + if (rev->line_level_traverse) { > + if (rev->diffopt.filter) > + die(_("-L<range>:<file> cannot be used with pathspec")); Should this be checking rev->diffopt.pathspec.nr? I could well believe that --diff-filter=A does not work with "-L" either, but that is a separate story. -Peff