From: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Date: Sun, 19 Apr 2009 20:36:29 GMT
Subject: Re: checkout @{-1} bug/oddity
Message-ID: <200904192236.32554.trast@student.ethz.ch>
In-Reply-To: <20090419153740.GA12431@chistera.yi.org>

Adeodato Simó wrote:
>   | % g co bar
>   | Already on 'bar'
>   | 
>   | % g co -
>   | Already on 'bar'
> 
> In my opinion the last command should switch to master, as in, switching
> to the current branch should not lose the @{-1} history.

This is by analogy with 'cd'.  Try 'cd .; cd -' in the shell.

See

  http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/106583

for the original mention; I don't have the time to re-read the entire
thread, but IIRC it was not discussed again.

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