"trunk" is ambigous

[Mike Alexander]

--On September 6, 2011 4:18:55 PM -0700 John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> 
wrote:

>
> On Sep 6, 2011, at 3:16 PM, Mike Alexander wrote:
>
>> I've been trying to set things up to use the git mirror of the
>> subversion repository for GnuCash as described on the wiki.  I
>> submitted a trivial patch last night to make sure things were
>> working ok.  They seem to be fine, but git keeps complaining
>> "warning: refname 'trunk' is ambiguous" when I do things like
>> git-update or git checkout trunk.  I think I followed the
>> instructions on the Wiki, but I must not have.  Does anyone know
>> what I did wrong or how to fix it?  Although things seem to be
>> working I wonder if this is a symptom of a problem that will cause
>> trouble later.
>
> Mike,
>
> Nothing to worry about. "Trunk" is indeed ambiguous (there's
> refs/trunk, refs/remotes/trunk, and refs/remotes/origin/trunk). Git
> whines, but then does the right thing, which is to checkout
> refs/trunk.

I figured that might be the case but wondered if I had set some option 
to make it warn me about this.  I can't find any such option, however.

         Mike