Re: Git log --tags isn't working as expected

Jeff King [off-list ref] writes:

By the way, I noticed something funny that I forgot to mention:

  git log --tags=does-not-exist

shows HEAD, because the logic to kick in the default only asks "were we
given any refs to start the traversal?". I think it probably should
consider a wildcard with no matches to override the default, and show
nothing.

I haven't decided if it should be empty-but-success, or give an error.

I agree.  The same for --branches, --glob, etc.  I'd say it should
behave just like "git log HEAD..HEAD".