From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>
Cc: Kevin Daudt <me@ikke.info>, Git Mailing list <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] gitcli: tweak "man gitcli" for clarity
Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2017 19:34:15 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqq3756txeg.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.21.1711220453290.3814@DESKTOP-1GPMCEJ> (Robert P. J. Day's message of "Wed, 22 Nov 2017 04:55:12 -0500 (EST)")
"Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@crashcourse.ca> writes:
> git repo with a file called "Gemfile", so i created a branch called
> "Gemfile", and when i ran:
>
> $ git checkout Gemfile
>
> git switched to the branch. so even with the ambiguity, git obviously
> has some sort of precedence order it checks. so what are the rules
> here?
31b83f36 ("Merge branch 'nd/checkout-disambiguation'", 2016-09-26)
should have made it clear that the "checkout" command has a
convenience special case.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-11-22 10:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-11-21 21:27 [PATCH v2] gitcli: tweak "man gitcli" for clarity Robert P. J. Day
2017-11-21 21:45 ` Kevin Daudt
2017-11-21 21:47 ` Robert P. J. Day
2017-11-21 22:04 ` Kevin Daudt
2017-11-21 22:12 ` Robert P. J. Day
2017-11-22 9:55 ` Robert P. J. Day
2017-11-22 10:34 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2017-11-22 11:19 ` Robert P. J. Day
2017-11-22 11:41 ` Kevin Daudt
2017-11-22 11:46 ` Robert P. J. Day
2017-11-23 0:03 ` Jeff King
2017-11-23 2:22 ` Junio C Hamano
2017-11-23 7:45 ` Robert P. J. Day
2017-11-23 13:51 ` Jeff King
2017-11-23 20:55 ` Kevin Daudt
2017-11-24 1:01 ` Junio C Hamano
2017-11-24 18:16 ` Jeff King
2017-11-24 18:12 ` Jeff King
2017-11-25 3:02 ` Junio C Hamano
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