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 https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/446154/git-not-creating-merge-commit-when-merging-signed-annotated-

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

he git-log(1) manual page just states for these options "... that match the specified pattern (regular expression)". Given a commit with the following headers: Author: Tim Friske Commit: Tim Friske When running "git log --author='tim|friske' --regexp-ignore-case" I wou

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

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