On Wed, 22 Nov 2017, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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.
ok, then i'm still curious about git examples that actually fail due
to an inability to disambiguate.
rday
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