From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on dcvr.yhbt.net X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-ASN: AS31976 209.132.180.0/23 X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.1 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED, DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_HI, T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD shortcircuit=no autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by dcvr.yhbt.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id AA2601F404 for ; Fri, 23 Mar 2018 02:09:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751771AbeCWCJo (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Mar 2018 22:09:44 -0400 Received: from out5-smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.29]:41903 "EHLO out5-smtp.messagingengine.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751553AbeCWCJo (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Mar 2018 22:09:44 -0400 Received: from compute6.internal (compute6.nyi.internal [10.202.2.46]) by mailout.nyi.internal (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6829720D2D; Thu, 22 Mar 2018 22:09:43 -0400 (EDT) Received: from frontend2 ([10.202.2.161]) by compute6.internal (MEProxy); Thu, 22 Mar 2018 22:09:43 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d= aaronjgreenberg.com; h=cc:date:from:message-id:subject:to :x-me-sender:x-me-sender:x-sasl-enc; s=fm2; bh=ZuVixVDGYLgtb1m1b /L2mch5zuWMzQfFLYoFvb9j0eg=; b=kdYojRH/ipucUMqvp5E/Pq1HlM8s75D4b CcVW3DX6j8/OAqcTASdjFZjb91/HK1fTt+fE0tK1mBW8bFvfKsVnMdbSfOnUAvkf 7ygiGv+DUiZd5nOgvFUtlYWdfMMMcxgxrWtpz4dhKQ6Bsfq+TQtxNis6fuV+tzLo LmxozZjvFTwbGmUVafXhvX0srkZjdJEqdleyHSbx/h6C8OH1ms4QBcz7GWmpJ9PC h6udrS2Zw7BXTvlhD54//clnBw1oR0LLLjLZDbKl1wSMYASzLJ8wD4twn/Jr+i6B krwkWSflnTc1thUSF0yJU1PaU8p1MnNLBgC72ZEmGhTQkRwRgHkEw== DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d= messagingengine.com; h=cc:date:from:message-id:subject:to :x-me-sender:x-me-sender:x-sasl-enc; s=fm2; bh=ZuVixVDGYLgtb1m1b /L2mch5zuWMzQfFLYoFvb9j0eg=; b=SOQ3y9EHTEciR/drwjtxfMMXiucbXceyO Ez0OqLJsWJ/9Ci5i7K8DK9TB2Ef5z7jIzotX0NZINl/pr20pylyfMCYdf1ler1TY ACUHlnOQ4D3T/txKlUJDkEPGobmSJ/gl+VS3rYDPLdz5kOdGzyMWiJgK93miSgSr Z/Qxa7wVe+Ys+/MjHg+dJI7jjID4sHZanXpiOciPtdjFe3fBGdOyQmr2MM6e3C1X anzplQ4MTxW58e8sm8fcxT57DFIBVaPzV4sCI2MXSXFivJbBkqvf0jsg5BOqBaVm 3Ec79aYOVgvJ+1PkbbKiM4+nzvuI3Kd7vshaEoAeg6gsgV1dvFjaw== X-ME-Sender: Received: from localhost.localdomain (unknown [159.203.64.218]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 113E2240DC; Thu, 22 Mar 2018 22:09:43 -0400 (EDT) From: Aaron Greenberg To: git@vger.kernel.org Cc: peff@peff.net, p@aaronjgreenberg.com Subject: [PATCH] branch: implement shortcut to delete last branch Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2018 02:09:25 +0000 Message-Id: <1521770966-18383-1-git-send-email-p@aaronjgreenberg.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.7.4 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org This patch gives git-branch the ability to delete the previous checked-out branch using the "-" shortcut. This shortcut already exists for git-checkout, git-merge, and git-revert. One of my common workflows is to do some work on a local topic branch and push it to a remote, where it gets merged in to 'master'. Then, I switch back to my local master, fetch the remote master, and delete the previous topic branch. $ git checkout -b topic-a $ # Do some work... $ git commit -am "Implement feature A" $ git push origin topic-a # 'origin/topic-a' gets merged into 'origin/master' $ git checkout master $ git branch -d topic-a $ # With this patch, a user could simply type $ git branch -d - I think it's a useful shortcut for cleaning up a just-merged branch (or a just switched-from branch.)