Theodore Tso <tytso@xxxxxxx> writes: > The one thing I would worry about is the potential ambiguity if you do > something like "git checkout FOOBAR", and FOOBAR was both a branch > name as well as a file name. How should it be interpreted? I'd argue > the real problem was we conflated two distinct operations: "switching > to a new branch", and "reverting a file" to the same name, checkout. I just replied to Avery about that. -- is always the way to disambiguate between refs (that come before --) and paths (that come after --), not limited to "git checkout" but with other commands such as "git log", "git diff", etc. -- 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
