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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
Cc: Thomas Adam <thomas@xteddy.org>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] merge: allow "-" as a short-hand for "previous branch"
Date: Fri, 08 Apr 2011 11:43:38 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7vipuo4m91.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4D9ED5AC.3050106@drmicha.warpmail.net> (Michael J. Gruber's message of "Fri, 08 Apr 2011 11:30:20 +0200")

Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net> writes:

> ... In principle it makes
> sense everywhere where a branch name makes sense, e.g.:
>
> git branch -D foo
> #...can't delete the current branch
> git checkout whatever
> git branch -D -
>
> In this case, shell history is faster, of course.

Yeah, and "branch -[dD]" is truly destructive, so...

      reply	other threads:[~2011-04-08 18:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-04-07 23:03 [PATCH] merge: allow "-" as a short-hand for "previous branch" Junio C Hamano
2011-04-07 23:13 ` Thomas Adam
2011-04-07 23:26   ` Junio C Hamano
2011-04-08  9:30     ` Michael J Gruber
2011-04-08 18:43       ` Junio C Hamano [this message]

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