Re: [PATCH v2] git-rebase: Teach rebase "-" shorthand.

From: John Keeping <john@keeping.me.uk>
Date: Mar 19, 2014, 18:02 UTC
Message-ID: <20140319180213.GB11018@serenity.lan>
In-Reply-To: <xmqqob123wjm.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com>

On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 10:53:01AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:

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>    "rebase -" with your change still says something like this:
> 
>         First, rewinding head to replay your work on top of it...
>         Fast-forwarded HEAD to @{-1}.
> 
>    instead of "Fast-forwarded HEAD to -".  Somebody may later want
>    to "fix" this, making these two eye-candy output to be different
>    from each other, and what your test expects will no longer hold
>    (not that I think it is better to say "-" instead of @{-1}
>    there).

I don't think either of these is correct. When using "-" with the commands that already support it, I have occasionally found that "-" isn't what I thought it was.

Can we use `git name-rev` to put the actual name here, so that people who have not done what they intended can hopefully notice sooner?