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Re: What's cooking in git.git (Sep 2016, #05; Mon, 19)

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Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com>
Date
Sep 21, 2016, 09:11 UTC
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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
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  1. Junio C HamanoSep 19, 2016
  2. Johannes SchindelinSep 20, 2016
  3. Junio C HamanoSep 21, 2016
  4. Johannes SchindelinSep 21, 2016
  5. Duy NguyenSep 21, 2016
  6. Junio C HamanoSep 21, 2016
  7. Kevin DaudtSep 21, 2016
  8. Junio C HamanoSep 21, 2016
  9. Kevin DaudtSep 21, 2016
  10. Jeff KingSep 22, 2016
  11. Junio C HamanoSep 22, 2016

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