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Subject: Re: Looking for a way to turn off/modify ref disambiguation
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"Nathan W. Panike" <nathan.panike@gmail.com> writes:

>        1.          If $GIT_DIR/<name> exists, that is what you mean
> (this is usually useful only for HEAD, FETCH_HEAD, ORIG_HEAD,
> MERGE_HEAD and CHERRY_PICK_HEAD);
>        2.          otherwise, refs/<name> if it exists;
>        3.          otherwise, refs/tags/<refname> if it exists;
>        4.          otherwise, refs/heads/<name> if it exists;
>        5.          otherwise, refs/remotes/<name> if it exists;
>        6.          otherwise, refs/remotes/<name>/HEAD if it exists.
> ...
>
> Is there any way to change this behavior, e.g., so that rule 6 becomes
> an error?

You will force people to say "git log origin/master..master" to measure
their progress if you did so, when "git log origin..master" has been the
way described in many git books and documentation pages floating on the
web.

I think it is _very_ unlikely that such a change is going to happen.