From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Junio C Hamano Subject: Re: Ambiguous ref names Date: Fri, 20 Nov 2009 02:26:42 -0800 Message-ID: <7vzl6h3319.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> References: <5195c8760911200218v5b75d690hbaaf00b44c8df6af@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: Jeenu V X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Nov 20 11:26:59 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1NBQhf-0007Bm-1B for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Fri, 20 Nov 2009 11:26:59 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752110AbZKTK0q (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Nov 2009 05:26:46 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752057AbZKTK0q (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Nov 2009 05:26:46 -0500 Received: from a-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com ([208.72.237.25]:33614 "EHLO sasl.smtp.pobox.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751910AbZKTK0q (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Nov 2009 05:26:46 -0500 Received: from sasl.smtp.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by a-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id A72C881E06; Fri, 20 Nov 2009 05:26:49 -0500 (EST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=pobox.com; h=to:cc:subject :references:from:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type; s=sasl; bh=loOmhOSUMAU9Ek2/H1MmUoowExA=; b=a2sLZe O06CarpB8ODDawOjBhiMuBaC/hrbgKBkdeYH7xBUhcIxV9GkA9p0PSzxm1XwoA9K dE8fLGz6tdz4FTv8sE+EB7WyFtydeDlkKIvEPMQnhvePmPEH54zlmiksKeBrSbgw 8xIpOFZ/mn5SaAuCmmCGdmVXW6pKgjwefAqtw= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=pobox.com; h=to:cc:subject :references:from:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type; q=dns; s=sasl; b=voX7idbyUTxh6TU2U0zxPSDre2suSAt9 9e6qBjW7mKX+TUojS5Qyh3GqIg7lUkrmuRnb9f+Zi0zrvKpDfe2dGWkq3nghkBmD cJ9XkN/8YUn33T/uKSEneZ1+vTIdQihnX32plFvEDZa+rG7EgQXxMkF2GObDU8pZ rXz5UfQpbL0= Received: from a-pb-sasl-quonix. (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by a-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8464D81E05; Fri, 20 Nov 2009 05:26:47 -0500 (EST) Received: from pobox.com (unknown [68.225.240.211]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by a-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id A2D1681E04; Fri, 20 Nov 2009 05:26:44 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <5195c8760911200218v5b75d690hbaaf00b44c8df6af@mail.gmail.com> (Jeenu V.'s message of "Fri\, 20 Nov 2009 15\:48\:44 +0530") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.2 (gnu/linux) X-Pobox-Relay-ID: 3522E110-D5BF-11DE-B4A7-9F3FEE7EF46B-77302942!a-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Jeenu V writes: > If I've two branches a.b.c and a.b.c.d, why does 'git checkout' > complains about ambiguous ref names? Because it doesn't??? : demo; git init Initialized empty Git repository in /var/tmp/gomi/twelve/.git/ : demo/master; >f : demo/master; git add f : demo/master; git commit -a -m 'initial' [master (root-commit) cb1d5f2] initial 0 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) create mode 100644 f : demo/master; git branch a.b.c : demo/master; git branch a.b.c.d : demo/master; git checkout a.b.c Switched to branch 'a.b.c' It could be that you have a tag and a branch that are both named a.b.c, though.