On Tue, 21 Nov 2017, Kevin Daudt wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 21, 2017 at 04:27:59PM -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> > No major changes, just some rewording and showing some variations of
> > general Git commands.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <[email protected]>
> >
> > ---
> >
> > diff --git a/Documentation/gitcli.txt b/Documentation/gitcli.txt
> > index 9f13266a6..d690d1ff0 100644
> > --- a/Documentation/gitcli.txt
> > +++ b/Documentation/gitcli.txt
> > @@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ gitcli
> > DESCRIPTION
> > -----------
> >
> > -This manual describes the convention used throughout Git CLI.
> > +This manual describes the conventions used throughout Git CLI.
> >
> > Many commands take revisions (most often "commits", but sometimes
> > "tree-ish", depending on the context and command) and paths as their
> > @@ -32,32 +32,35 @@ arguments. Here are the rules:
> > between the HEAD commit and the work tree as a whole". You can say
> > `git diff HEAD --` to ask for the latter.
> >
> > - * Without disambiguating `--`, Git makes a reasonable guess, but errors
> > - out and asking you to disambiguate when ambiguous. E.g. if you have a
> > + * Without a disambiguating `--`, Git makes a reasonable guess, but can
> > + error out, asking you to disambiguate when ambiguous. E.g. if you have
> > a
>
> 'Can' error out implies that it sometimes would not error out when
> there is ambiguity. Are there situation where git does not error out
> in that case?
even if there is ambiguity, will git actually "error out"? i have a
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?
rday
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