On Thu, Nov 23, 2017 at 02:45:44AM -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
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> > It's pretty clear to me as it is, but maybe we can write it differently.
> > Like:
> >
> > Without a disambiguating `--`, Git makes a reasonable guess. If it
> > cannot guess (because your request is ambiguous), then it will error
> > out.
>
> ok, i'll give this another try, given that there are two independent
> points to be made here:
>
> 1) even without the "--", git can generally parse the command and do
> the right thing (or do a *valid* thing, given its heuristics)
>
> 2) occasionally, without the "--", the command is really and truly
> ambiguous, at which point git will fail and tell you to disambiguate
>
> not the wording i will use, but can we agree that those are the two
> points to be made here?