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Rub=C3=A9n 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.