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

From: David Aguilar <davvid@gmail.com>
Date: Sep 25, 2013, 02:51 UTC
Message-ID: <CAJDDKr64ou+gO7WJLFZ4zOSv+VCbkiW7nKuZa9=5_fiSqGUeyQ@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <CAEQewpqLcDJPo2gUWPk-xc3OitdTC4gH2tnyqaURiQ77BApNog@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 2:07 PM, Jona Christopher Sahnwaldt <jc@sahnwaldt.de> wrote:

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> Hi,
>
> maybe this has already been reported, but I didn't find it in the mail archive.
>
> If I understand correctly, after I clone a repo, I should be able to
> switch to branch foo just by running
>
> git checkout foo
>
> This doesn't seem to work if a folder called "foo" exists in the root
> of the repo.

git checkout foo --

The double-dash at the end disambiguates between refs and paths.

You can use that trick on any command that accepts refspec (branches, tags, etc) and pathspec (path patterns).

-- 
David