From: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
To: Sergey Organov <sorganov@gmail.com>
Cc: Konstantin Khomoutov <kostix@bswap.ru>,
Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>, Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>,
Ivan Tham <pickfire@riseup.net>,
git@vger.kernel.org,
"brian m . carlson" <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] branch: add '-' to delete previous branch
Date: Fri, 1 May 2020 16:22:27 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200501222227.GE41612@syl.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87r1w43qfy.fsf@osv.gnss.ru>
On Fri, May 01, 2020 at 01:22:25PM +0300, Sergey Organov wrote:
> Konstantin Khomoutov <kostix@bswap.ru> writes:
>
> > On Fri, May 01, 2020 at 12:18:31PM +0300, Sergey Organov wrote:
> >
> > [...]
> >> >> I would speculate that `git checkout -` may have learned about "-"
> >> >> simply from the `cd -` ...
> >> >
> >> > You do not have to speculate. You only need to read what has been
> >> > already said in the thread ;-).
> >>
> >> Should I expect "git checkout ~" to get me to my "home" branch then? ;-)
> >
> > Heh, no you shouldn't: the '~' is expanded by the shell itself according
> > to its parameter expansion rules, so `cd` never sees the bare tilde
> > in this case ;-)
>
> Yeah, but then git could compare its argument to $HOME and "do the right
> thing" ;-) Just kidding, obviously.
>
> That said, bare "cd" also changes to home directory, so bare "git
> checkout" could become as useful.
My qualms about the general usefulness of a bare 'git checkout' going to
some bookmarked branch aside, this won't work, since a bare 'git
checkout' already sets HEAD to the currently checked-out branch.
That said, I am not at all sold on this being a good idea.
> >
> >> Actually, that could be a good idea. I mean, to have "home" branch
> >> notion and a short-cut for it.
> >
> > I have no say for the idea per se but you would have hard time using
> > bare tilda character for that precisely because of it being special to
> > Unix shells - you'd need to escape it all the time (though something
> > like unquoted @{~} would work just OK).
>
> Yes, plain '~' won't do.
>
> -- Sergey
Thanks,
Taylor
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-05-01 22:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-04-29 13:01 [PATCH] branch: add '-' to delete previous branch Ivan Tham
2020-04-29 13:37 ` Sergey Organov
2020-04-29 19:00 ` Taylor Blau
2020-04-29 19:06 ` Eric Sunshine
2020-04-29 19:50 ` Sergey Organov
2020-04-29 19:57 ` Taylor Blau
2020-04-29 20:22 ` Junio C Hamano
2020-04-29 20:35 ` Taylor Blau
2020-04-29 20:39 ` Junio C Hamano
2020-04-29 20:37 ` Junio C Hamano
2020-04-29 20:26 ` Sergey Organov
2020-04-30 16:27 ` Konstantin Khomoutov
2020-04-30 19:52 ` Junio C Hamano
2020-05-01 9:18 ` Sergey Organov
2020-05-01 9:44 ` Konstantin Khomoutov
2020-05-01 10:22 ` Sergey Organov
2020-05-01 22:22 ` Taylor Blau [this message]
2020-04-30 3:43 ` Ivan Tham
2020-04-29 19:27 ` Junio C Hamano
2020-04-29 19:31 ` Randall S. Becker
2020-04-29 19:55 ` Sergey Organov
2020-04-29 18:58 ` Taylor Blau
2020-04-30 14:52 ` Ivan Tham
2020-04-30 15:59 ` Taylor Blau
2020-04-30 19:51 ` Junio C Hamano
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