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Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/8] tag: Change  misleading --list <pattern> documentation
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Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> I think it's expected to work under the usual last-one-wins option
> parsing. A more subtle case is that:
>
>   git tag -l -d foo
>
> would override "-l" with "-d". That's reasonable under the same rule as
> long as the user knows that the two are mode-selectors. I don't think we
> make that explicit in the documentation, though, so perhaps it isn't
> something users should rely on.

Yup, that is reasonable.