Re: What's cooking in git.git (Sep 2016, #05; Mon, 19)

[Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>]

Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com> writes:

> On Tue, Sep 20, 2016 at 6:30 AM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
>> * nd/checkout-disambiguation (2016-09-09) 4 commits
>>  - fixup! checkout.txt: document a common case that ignores ambiguation rules
>>  - checkout: fix ambiguity check in subdir
>>  - checkout.txt: document a common case that ignores ambiguation rules
>>  - checkout: add some spaces between code and comment
>>
>>  "git checkout <word>" does not follow the usual disambiguation
>>  rules when the <word> can be both a rev and a path, to allow
>>  checking out a branch 'foo' in a project that happens to have a
>>  file 'foo' in the working tree without having to disambiguate.
>>  This was poorly documented and the check was incorrect when the
>>  command was run from a subdirectory.
>>
>>  Waiting for an Ack for fixup!
>
> Oops, I didn't know (I have about 300 unread git mails in my inbox), Ack.

Thanks.