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From: Sergey Organov <sorganov@gmail.com>
To: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Cc: 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: Wed, 29 Apr 2020 23:26:59 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87imhihwbw.fsf@osv.gnss.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200429195745.GC3920@syl.local> (Taylor Blau's message of "Wed, 29 Apr 2020 13:57:45 -0600")

Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com> writes:

> On Wed, Apr 29, 2020 at 10:50:41PM +0300, Sergey Organov wrote:
>> Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com> writes:
>>
>> [...]
>>
>> > In my opinion, it is fairly clear that 'git branch -D -' means "delete
>> > the last branch", and not "delete a list of branches from stdin.
>>
>> Honestly, I'd never guess it'd "delete the last branch". No way.
>
> I'm having trouble understanding why. This is how 'git checkout -'
> behaves, so I have no idea why 'git branch' wouldn't work the same
> way.

Well, if I knew 'git checkout -' does this, then yes, it'd be obvious.
The problem is that I didn't. Well, then, as I said in my original
reaction, I'm probably too late on this.

BTW, it was not that easy to find it in the "git help checkout" even
when I was specifically looking for it.

Thanks,
-- Sergey

  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-04-29 20:27 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 [this message]
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
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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