Re: [PATCH] cmd_reset: don't trash uncommitted changes unless told to

[Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx>]

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.
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