git checkout with an ambiguous rev

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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=xvNuQ@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx/



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