Jeff King <p...@peff.net> writes: > I read the rest of the thread, and I think the question here is not > about Git's behavior, but about parsing this sentence. > > Without a "--" Git can sometimes do what you want. Or it may error out, > if what you asked for is ambiguous. And that sentence is trying to cover > those cases separately, and the "can" only applies to the ambiguous > case. > > 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.
Splitting it into two sentences like you did makes it even clearer, I would think.
