Subject: Re: git checkout with an ambiguous rev

From: Rohit Sarkar <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 2 Oct 2019 18:58:32 +0530

On Wed, Oct 02, 2019 at 05:32:13PM +0530, Rohit Sarkar wrote:
> Hi,
> I was looking into writing a patch for the issue [1] where if an user has
> multiple remotes each with a remote tracking branch of the same name say
> xyz, 'git checkout xyz' fails with "error: pathspec 'xyz' did not match any
> file(s) known to git."
> 
> This can sort of be handled by setting checkout.defaultRemote so that
> the ambiguity is removed. Although when checkout.defaultRemote is not
> set or there are more than 2 remotes I think it would be helpful if git
> gives a message listing out the possible revs instead of the pathspec
> error. What do you guys think?
> 
> [1] : https://public-inbox.org/git/CACcTrKdzVCKUR8EfwhqBQR7vWzRqTLcwRJ_r-hx3VztD=[email-masked]/

Nvm. This was already handled in https://github.com/git/git/commit/ad8d5104b42108851b082d895018655ad5f9e4f3
by Avar

Thanks,
Rohit