From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2017 10:34:15 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] gitcli: tweak "man gitcli" for clarity
Message-ID: <xmqq3756txeg.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.21.1711220453290.3814@DESKTOP-1GPMCEJ>

"Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@crashcourse.ca> writes:

> 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.