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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: "Rubén Justo" <rjusto@gmail.com>
Cc: "Johannes Schindelin" <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>,
	"Rubén Justo via GitGitGadget" <gitgitgadget@gmail.com>,
	git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] branch: allow "-" as a short-hand for "previous branch"
Date: Sat, 13 Aug 2022 15:28:40 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqczd393s7.fsf@gitster.g> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <be21e2ba-1c57-a5aa-a986-64413f3983c3@gmail.com> ("Rubén Justo"'s message of "Sat, 13 Aug 2022 11:19:40 +0200")

Rubén Justo <rjusto@gmail.com> writes:

> Previous to this, I thought about making also a "git diff -",
> ...
> Also discarded the "git diff -" change, because of so many flags and
> conditions "diff" has. So I only sent the "branch -" patch.

Yeah, that is why the approach Johannes showed, i.e. instead of
making "in this context but not in that context, '-' means
'previous'" changes to random commands, teaching anybody that takes
@{-1} to understand that '-' means 'previous' everywhere, appears
very tempting.


  reply	other threads:[~2022-08-13 22:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-08-07 22:22 [PATCH] branch: allow "-" as a short-hand for "previous branch" Rubén Justo via GitGitGadget
2022-08-08 13:26 ` Johannes Schindelin
2022-08-08 16:06   ` Junio C Hamano
2022-08-13  9:19     ` Rubén Justo
2022-08-13 22:28       ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2022-08-16  9:49     ` Johannes Schindelin
2022-08-19 13:05       ` Johannes Schindelin
2022-08-19 18:11         ` Junio C Hamano
2022-08-25  7:57         ` Rubén Justo
2022-08-25 16:23           ` Junio C Hamano
2022-08-25 19:50             ` Rubén Justo
2022-08-13  9:08   ` Rubén Justo
2022-08-08 14:46 ` Junio C Hamano
2022-08-13  9:14   ` Rubén Justo
2022-08-16  9:31     ` Johannes Schindelin
2022-08-16 17:03       ` Rubén Justo
2022-08-19 11:42         ` Johannes Schindelin
2022-08-16 17:11 ` [PATCH v2] allow "-" as short-hand for "@{-1}" in "branch -d" Rubén Justo via GitGitGadget
2022-08-16 18:55   ` Junio C Hamano
2022-08-16 21:27     ` Rubén Justo
2022-08-16 21:18 ` [PATCH v3] branch: allow "-" as a short-hand for "previous branch" Rubén Justo
2022-09-11 14:14 ` [PATCH v4] branch: allow "-" as a shortcut " Rubén Justo
2022-09-12 17:52   ` Junio C Hamano
2022-09-12 21:18     ` Rubén Justo

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