git missing using --no-merges doesn't seem to work as expected

[nuragic]

Hello,

I'm trying to use the git missing with the --no-merges param but it doesn't work as (at least I) expected: it returns the same list as calling it without the --no-merges param, listing all the commits including the merge ones.

I'm using git missing branch1 branch2 --no-merges.

If I try to run git missing branch2 --no-merges or git missing --no-merges branch2 it throws, respectively:

fatal: unrecognized argument: --no-merges...branch2

fatal: ambiguous argument 'branch2...--no-merges': unknown revision or path not in the working tree.
Use '--' to separate paths from revisions, like this:
'git <command> [<revision>...] -- [<file>...]'

I don't know if it's a bug or I've just misunderstood the command, however in the man page it says that the same parameters as git log can be used.

Thanks! 😄

[nicolaiskogheim]

Thank you for bringing our attention to this one. git-missing is definitely not supposed to behave like that :)

There are two bugs (that I was able to spot, at least). The first is that the two first arguments to git missing is always assumed to be branch names. The second is that arguments after that are discarded.