From: David Aguilar <davvid@gmail.com>
To: Jona Christopher Sahnwaldt <jc@sahnwaldt.de>
Cc: Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: "git checkout foo" is getting confused by folder named "foo"
Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2013 19:51:14 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJDDKr64ou+gO7WJLFZ4zOSv+VCbkiW7nKuZa9=5_fiSqGUeyQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAEQewpqLcDJPo2gUWPk-xc3OitdTC4gH2tnyqaURiQ77BApNog@mail.gmail.com>
On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 2:07 PM, Jona Christopher Sahnwaldt
<jc@sahnwaldt.de> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> maybe this has already been reported, but I didn't find it in the mail archive.
>
> If I understand correctly, after I clone a repo, I should be able to
> switch to branch foo just by running
>
> git checkout foo
>
> This doesn't seem to work if a folder called "foo" exists in the root
> of the repo.
git checkout foo --
The double-dash at the end disambiguates between refs and paths.
You can use that trick on any command that accepts refspec (branches,
tags, etc) and pathspec (path patterns).
--
David
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-09-25 2:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-09-24 21:07 "git checkout foo" is getting confused by folder named "foo" Jona Christopher Sahnwaldt
2013-09-25 2:51 ` David Aguilar [this message]
2013-09-25 3:13 ` Keshav Kini
2013-09-25 3:33 ` Duy Nguyen
2013-09-25 8:58 ` Jona Christopher Sahnwaldt
2013-09-25 13:09 ` Matthieu Moy
2013-09-25 16:24 ` Jona Christopher Sahnwaldt
2013-09-25 19:12 ` Matthieu Moy
2013-09-25 19:36 ` Jona Christopher Sahnwaldt
2013-09-25 20:01 ` Matthieu Moy
2013-09-26 21:25 ` Jona Christopher Sahnwaldt
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