Re: What's cooking in git.git (Sep 2016, #05; Mon, 19)
On Tue, Sep 20, 2016 at 6:30 AM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
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> * nd/checkout-disambiguation (2016-09-09) 4 commits
> - fixup! checkout.txt: document a common case that ignores ambiguation rules
> - checkout: fix ambiguity check in subdir
> - checkout.txt: document a common case that ignores ambiguation rules
> - checkout: add some spaces between code and comment
>
> "git checkout <word>" does not follow the usual disambiguation
> rules when the <word> can be both a rev and a path, to allow
> checking out a branch 'foo' in a project that happens to have a
> file 'foo' in the working tree without having to disambiguate.
> This was poorly documented and the check was incorrect when the
> command was run from a subdirectory.
>
> Waiting for an Ack for fixup!
Oops, I didn't know (I have about 300 unread git mails in my inbox), Ack.
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Duy