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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: Using "-" for "previous branch" failing with rebase
Date: Sun, 16 Mar 2014 23:37:30 -0700
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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...