From: Junio C Hamano Date: Fri, 01 Jun 2012 19:04:00 GMT Subject: More use of levenshtein? Message-ID: <7vzk8m26sf.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> Perhaps we could go one step further when we issue this error message? $ git checkout -b jc/ls-files-i-dir maitn-1.7.8 fatal: git checkout: updating paths is incompatible with switching branches. Did you intend to checkout 'maitn-1.7.8' which can not be resolved as commit? Yes, I do have maint-1.7.8 branch in my private repository.