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Re: [PATCH v2] gitcli: tweak "man gitcli" for clarity

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Nov 22, 2017, 10:34 UTC
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"Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@crashcourse.ca> writes:
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> git repo with a file called "Gemfile", so i created a branch called
> "Gemfile", and when i ran:
>
>   $ git checkout Gemfile
>
> git switched to the branch. so even with the ambiguity, git obviously
> has some sort of precedence order it checks. so what are the rules
> here?

31b83f36 ("Merge branch 'nd/checkout-disambiguation'", 2016-09-26) should have made it clear that the "checkout" command has a convenience special case.

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