From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2011 17:27:51 GMT
Subject: Re: bug? in checkout with ambiguous refnames
Message-ID: <20110112172751.GA31747@sigill.intra.peff.net>
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