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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
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"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.