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From: Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: What's cooking in git.git (May 2013, #04; Wed, 15)
Date: Mon, 20 May 2013 17:18:31 +0700
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On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 6:42 AM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> * nd/warn-ambiguous-object-name (2013-05-07) 1 commit
>  - get_sha1: improve ambiguity warning regarding SHA-1 and ref names
>
>  "git cmd <name>", when <name> happens to be a 40-hex string,
>  directly uses the 40-hex string as an object name, even if a ref
>  "refs/<some hierarchy>/<name>" exists.  This disambiguation order
>  is unlikely to change, but we should warn about the ambiguity just
>  like we warn when more than one refs/ hierachies share the same
>  name.
>
>  The message needs to be fixed up, as this is not "refname is
>  ambiguous".

hm.. how should the message be rephrased? ambiguity of 40-hex string
and a ref path?
--
Duy