From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2011 09:07:51 GMT
Subject: Re: bug? in checkout with ambiguous refnames
Message-ID: <7vd3o232xk.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20110112012515.GA30856@sigill.intra.peff.net>

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.