From: Jay Soffian <jaysoffian@gmail.com>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] teach the new "@{-1} syntax to "git branch"
Date: Sat, 14 Feb 2009 02:11:41 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <76718490902132311j5add87bcpb103c951a8192b05@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7v4oyxzeay.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 2:08 AM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> This teaches the new "@{-1} syntax to refer to the previous branch to "git
> branch". After looking at somebody's faulty patch series on a topic
> branch too long, if you decide it is not worth merging, you can just say:
>
> $ git checkout master
> $ git branch -D @{-1}
>
> to get rid of it without having to type the name of the topic you now hate
> so much for wasting a lot of your time.
I hope I'm not the person who motivated this new syntax. :-)
j.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-02-14 7:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-02-14 7:08 [PATCH] teach the new "@{-1} syntax to "git branch" Junio C Hamano
2009-02-14 7:11 ` Jay Soffian [this message]
2009-02-14 7:21 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-02-14 9:37 ` [PATCH v2 1/2] Teach the " Junio C Hamano
2009-02-14 9:39 ` [PATCH v2 2/2] Teach @{-1} to git merge Junio C Hamano
2009-02-14 22:52 ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-02-15 2:05 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-02-15 2:32 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-02-15 9:24 ` Nanako Shiraishi
2009-02-15 10:02 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-02-15 11:21 ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-02-16 4:16 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-02-16 10:41 ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-02-16 16:40 ` Jay Soffian
2009-02-26 0:11 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-02-26 10:18 ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-02-27 4:27 ` Deskin Miller
2009-02-27 5:24 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-02-27 6:10 ` [PATCH] git-branch: a detached HEAD and branch called HEAD are different Junio C Hamano
2009-02-27 6:12 ` [PATCH] "git branch -M @{-1}" Junio C Hamano
2009-02-27 6:49 ` Junio C Hamano
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