Junio C Hamano [off-list ref] writes:
Will it barf and error out if there is any colon-ful one? I think it
should. I was about to write "I guess it could be argued both ways", but
after thinking about it for 5 seconds I do not see a sane way to explain a
command line "push origin --delete one two:three".
Actually the one I had in mind was
git push origin --delete one two:three four
If it were
git push origin --tags --delete=one --delete=four two:three
it would be perfectly understandable, though.
No, I am not saying that we should make --delete take a parameter, allow
multiple of them, and make them compatible with --tags. At least not yet.