On Thu, Nov 23, 2017 at 02:45:44AM -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > It's pretty clear to me as it is, but maybe we can write it differently. > > Like: > > > > Without a disambiguating `--`, Git makes a reasonable guess. If it > > cannot guess (because your request is ambiguous), then it will error > > out. > > ok, i'll give this another try, given that there are two independent > points to be made here: > > 1) even without the "--", git can generally parse the command and do > the right thing (or do a *valid* thing, given its heuristics) > > 2) occasionally, without the "--", the command is really and truly > ambiguous, at which point git will fail and tell you to disambiguate > > not the wording i will use, but can we agree that those are the two > points to be made here?
Yep, I think so. -Peff
