From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: "Uwe Kleine-König" <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: bug? in checkout with ambiguous refnames
Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2011 12:27:51 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110112172751.GA31747@sigill.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7vd3o232xk.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 01:07:51AM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:
>
> > I'm not sure. And to be honest I don't really care, because I think
> > people with ambiguous refs are little bit crazy anyway (after all, in
> > the current code it simply calls die()). But I think there is some
> > argument to be made that due to tracking, start_point is not _just_
> > a regular ref. We do care about its branchiness.
>
> I do not really care either myself, and if
>
> git branch --track foo heads/ambiguity
> git branch --track foo tags/ambiguity
>
> allows the user to differentiate between the branch and the tag, it would
> be more than sufficient.
It does already. So I am inclined to leave it alone, then. I doubt
anyone actually cares, and if they do, they will get an error message,
after which they can manually disambiguate themselves.
So let's leave it at the mega-patch I posted earlier.
-Peff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-01-12 17:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-01-07 10:46 bug? in checkout with ambiguous refnames Uwe Kleine-König
2011-01-07 19:44 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-01-07 19:49 ` Jeff King
2011-01-07 19:54 ` Jeff King
2011-01-07 22:50 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-01-07 23:17 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-01-11 6:52 ` Jeff King
2011-01-11 17:02 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-01-11 18:02 ` Jeff King
2011-01-12 1:25 ` Jeff King
2011-01-12 9:07 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-01-12 17:27 ` Jeff King [this message]
2011-01-11 6:55 ` Jeff King
2011-01-11 19:20 ` Jeff King
2011-01-11 20:00 ` Jeff King
2011-01-08 20:40 ` Martin von Zweigbergk
2011-01-08 21:40 ` Jeff King
2011-01-09 2:43 ` Martin von Zweigbergk
2011-01-09 7:31 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-01-09 16:18 ` Martin von Zweigbergk
2011-01-12 9:11 ` Uwe Kleine-König
2011-01-12 17:46 ` Jeff King
2011-01-12 18:19 ` Uwe Kleine-König
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