From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Taylor Hedberg <tmhedberg@gmail.com>
Cc: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>,
Git List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC] Delete current branch
Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2013 12:15:08 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7vy592uzsz.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130719170830.GD5999@euporie> (Taylor Hedberg's message of "Fri, 19 Jul 2013 13:08:30 -0400")
Taylor Hedberg <tmhedberg@gmail.com> writes:
> Junio C Hamano, Fri 2013-07-19 @ 09:48:06-0700:
>> But there is a very commonly accepted long tradition for "-" to mean
>> "read from the standard input", so we cannot reuse it to mean "the
>> branch I was previously on" for every command without first making
>> sure the command will never want to use "-" for the other common
>> purpose.
> ...
> What would it mean to check out the standard input, anyway?
That is my point exactly, isn't it?
You have to ask that question "What would it mean to do X on the
standard input?" for every operation X you might want to use the
short-cut "-" for.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-07-19 19:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-07-19 10:35 [RFC] Delete current branch Ramkumar Ramachandra
2013-07-19 14:28 ` Andreas Schwab
2013-07-19 14:35 ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2013-07-19 15:08 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-07-19 15:42 ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2013-07-19 16:48 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-07-19 16:50 ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2013-07-19 17:08 ` Taylor Hedberg
2013-07-19 19:15 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2013-07-19 22:52 ` Junio C Hamano
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