[bug-ish] [convenience] fatal: only [12] (reference)s? expected, [12] given

["mana vortex" <manavortex@gmail.com>]

Hello git folks,
I’m writing about something that annoys me since forever: The 
reference handling is not consistent between commands. For example, I do

git checkout origin master

but I do

git reset —hard origin/master

I always get it wrong the first time.

Is there a convenience option that circumvents the error?

If one argument is given, but two are expected, split the argument at 
the first / and retry - throw error if that isn’t valid
If two arguments are given, but one is expected, concat the arguments 
with a /.

Is that possible already, and if not, would you care to implement it?

Thank you for your time.