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Re: [PATCH] Remove misguided branch disambiguation.

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Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Date
Dec 18, 2005, 00:06 UTC
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Junio C Hamano, Sat, Dec 17, 2005 10:37:38 +0100:
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> This removes the misguided attempt to refuse processing a branch
> name xyzzy and insist it to be given as either heads/xyzzy or
> tags/xyzzy when a tag xyzzy exists.  There was no reason to do
> so --- the search order was predictable and well defined, so if
> the user says xyzzy we should have taken the tag xyzzy in such a
> case without complaining.
Right. The test 'Ambiguous' in t0000-basic is redundant now, btw
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  1. Remove misguided branch disambiguation.Junio C Hamano, Dec 17, 2005
  2. Alex RiesenDec 18, 2005
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