From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Tim Chase <git@tim.thechases.com>
Cc: Git <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Using "-" for "previous branch" failing with rebase
Date: Sun, 16 Mar 2014 23:37:30 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7vppll2uvp.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140315152924.26c3294e@bigbox.christie.dr> (Tim Chase's message of "Sat, 15 Mar 2014 15:29:24 -0500")
Tim Chase <git@tim.thechases.com> writes:
> Is this just an interface inconsistency or is there a some technical
> reason this doesn't work (or, has it been addressed/fixed, and just
> not pulled into Debian Stable's 1.7.10.4 version of git)?
It is merely that nobody thought "rebase" would benefit from such a
short-hand, I think.
Teach more commands that operate on branch names about "-"
shorthand for "the branch we were previously on", like we did
for "git merge -" sometime after we introduced "git checkout -"
has been sitting in my "leftover bits" list at
http://git-blame.blogspot.com/p/leftover-bits.html
for quite some time. Hint, hint...
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-03-17 6:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-03-15 20:29 Using "-" for "previous branch" failing with rebase Tim Chase
2014-03-17 6:37 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2014-03-18 1:47 ` Tim Chase
2014-03-18 18:59 ` Junio C Hamano
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