alt Hacker NewsThat's my overall point: the argument itself (with respect to the current state of the repo) is what determines the behavior. I don't think this is anywhere close to as intuitive as commands that only ever accept one "type" of argument (and erroring if it's different).
I stand corrected by this one scenario, but I’ve been using git for over a decade and never found that useful. Just don’t use checkout on a file path, there is no need.