Linus Arver <linusa@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > IOW, make the minority (certainly not majority, I think?) of users who > really need the error propagation use the (new) extra flag, while the > rest of us (including the version of you who was surprised by the > limited behavior of "--missing=...", enough to write this series) don't > have to. I am skeptical that we even want that. Those who want to use the "--missing" and care about special casing missing starting points can easily check with things like "cat-file -e" before even running the "rev-list --missing".
