From: Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 14 May 2018 14:52:53 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] checkout.c: add strict usage of -- before file_path
Message-ID: <CACsJy8B2TVr1g+k+eSQ=pBEO3WN4_LtgLo9gpur8X7Z9GOFL_A@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20180513210233.GA18892@alpha>

On Sun, May 13, 2018 at 11:02 PM, Kevin Daudt <me@ikke.info> wrote:
> One data point indicating this is giving issues is that today on IRC a
> user was confused why `git checkout pt` did not show any message and did
> not checkout a remote branch called 'pt' as they expected. It turned out
> they also had a local file/dir called 'pt', which caused git to checkout
> that file/dir rather than creating a local branch based on the remote
> branch.

Now this is something we should fix. When an argument can be
interpreted in more than one way Git should reject it, but I think
this ambiguation logic does not take dwim (i.e. create a new branch
beased on remote) into account.
-- 
Duy