Re: [PATCH] checkout: implement "-" shortcut name for last branch

From: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Date: Jan 15, 2009, 14:01 UTC
Message-ID: <200901151501.26394.trast@student.ethz.ch>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0901150141570.3586@pacific.mpi-cbg.de>

Johannes Schindelin wrote:

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> On Thu, 15 Jan 2009, Thomas Rast wrote:
> 
> > Let git-checkout save the old branch as a symref in LAST_HEAD, and
> > make 'git checkout -' switch back to LAST_HEAD, like 'cd -' does in
> > the shell.
> 
> Actually, what you want is in the reflog, no?  So... parsing 
> .git/logs/HEAD for the latest occurrence of "checkout: moving from " and 
> then using everything up until the next space should give you the branch 
> name, right?

It just feels wrong to grab that information from there; it's a free-form comment field for user consumption. And it wasn't even that hard to implement a LAST_HEAD.

-- 
Thomas Rast
trast@{inf,student}.ethz.ch