Git not creating merge commit when merging signed/annotated tag

Hi Everyone, ten days ago I asked on https://unix.stackexchange.com/ why Git is not creating a merge commit when merging a signed/annotated tag. Does someone has an answer to my question

Why does git log --author=pattern not work with regexp-ignore-case and other regexp-related options?

... that match the specified pattern (regular expression). Given a commit with the following headers: Author: Tim Friske m...@tifr.de Commit: Tim Friske m...@tifr.de When running git log --author='tim|friske' --regexp-ignore-case I would expect a match because lower- and upper case characters are treated

Why does git log -Gregex works with regexp-ignore-case but not with other regexp-related options?

Hi, I wonder why git log -Gregexp works with the regexp-ignore-case option but not with the other regexp-related options? Wouldn't it be useful to make the Gregex option support the following options? * basic-regexp * extended-regexp * fixed-strings * perl-regexp Similarly I think it