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

From: Junio C Hamano <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2017 19:34:15 +0900

"Robert P. J. Day" <[email-masked]> 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.