Re: bug? in checkout with ambiguous refnames

On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 01:07:51AM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:

Jeff King [off-list ref] writes:

quoted

I'm not sure. And to be honest I don't really care, because I think
people with ambiguous refs are little bit crazy anyway (after all, in
the current code it simply calls die()). But I think there is some
argument to be made that due to tracking, start_point is not _just_
a regular ref. We do care about its branchiness.

I do not really care either myself, and if 

    git branch --track foo heads/ambiguity
    git branch --track foo tags/ambiguity

allows the user to differentiate between the branch and the tag, it would
be more than sufficient.

It does already. So I am inclined to leave it alone, then. I doubt
anyone actually cares, and if they do, they will get an error message,
after which they can manually disambiguate themselves.

So let's leave it at the mega-patch I posted earlier.

-Peff