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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: Fwd: Bug#793884: git: allows nonsensical command 'git checkout -b HEAD'
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 2015 09:32:39 -0700
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Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com> writes:

> This seems like a good thing to fix (i.e. make sure XX is not
> ambiguous before creating it with "git checkout -b XX")

Yeah, sounds like an easy lunch-time hack low-hanging fruit :-).