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Re: "git checkout foo" is getting confused by folder named "foo"

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Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com>
Date
Sep 25, 2013, 03:33 UTC
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On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 10:13 AM, Keshav Kini <keshav.kini@gmail.com> wrote:
>     [2] fs@erdos /tmp/extraction-framework $ git checkout wiktionary --
>     fatal: invalid reference: wiktionary

It may work if we demote this from fatal to error warning so the dwim logic in checkout has a chance to try differently, I think.

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Duy
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