When you have a file called HEAD in the work tree, the code to report where the HEAD is at when "git checkout $commit^0" is done triggered unnecessary ambiguity checking. Explicitly mark the command line with "--" and make it clear that we are talking about a revision. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> --- git-checkout.sh | 2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/git-checkout.sh b/git-checkout.sh index 17f4392..93dfb46 100755 --- a/git-checkout.sh +++ b/git-checkout.sh @@ -169,7 +169,7 @@ detach_warn= describe_detached_head () { test -n "$quiet" || { printf >&2 "$1 " - GIT_PAGER= git log >&2 -1 --pretty=oneline --abbrev-commit "$2" + GIT_PAGER= git log >&2 -1 --pretty=oneline --abbrev-commit "$2" -- } } - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html