From: Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org>
Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2007 07:02:57 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] scripts: do not get confused with HEAD in work tree
Message-ID: <20071129070257.GB5144@glandium.org>
In-Reply-To: <7vbq9d29h3.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Wed, Nov 28, 2007 at 04:15:04PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> When you have a file called HEAD in your work tree, many commands that
> our scripts feed "HEAD" to would complain about the rev vs path
> ambiguity.  A solution is to form command line more carefully by
> appending -- to them, which makes it clear that we mean HEAD rev not
> HEAD file.

Shouldn't this be done for anything else, then ? You could have a file
with the same name as a branch and have some commands using branch names
fail too.

Mike