Re: [PATCH GSoC] Allow "-" as a short-hand for "@{-1}" in branch deletions

From: Siddharth Kannan <kannan.siddharth12@gmail.com>
Date: Mar 10, 2017, 03:30 UTC
Message-ID: <20170310033058.GA1984@instance-1.c.mfqp-source.internal>
In-Reply-To: <0102015ab11ee091-f9f11bb5-559a-4c92-b5f6-9f7755e8f4b9-000000@eu-west-1.amazonses.com>

Hey Shuyang, On Thu, Mar 09, 2017 at 09:47:12AM -0800, Stefan Beller wrote:

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> > The "-" shorthand that stands for "the branch we were previously on",
> > like we did for "git merge -" sometime after we introduced "git checkout -".
> > Now I am introducing this shorthand to branch delete, i.e.
> > "git branch -d -".
> >
> > More reference:
> >   https://public-inbox.org/git/7vppuewl6h.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org/
>

1. I have already worked on this project, and my patch is in the
"Needs review" section in "What's cooking". It implements this change
inside sha1_name.c and doesn't touch git branch. So, your patch is
mutually exclusive to my previous patch.

2. Matthieu made an argument against enabling commands like "git
branch -D -" even by mistake [1]. The way that I have implemented
ensured that not a lot of "rm"-like commands were enabled.

My patch that would enable this shorthand for other projects is here[2].

[1]: http://public-inbox.org/git/vpqh944eof7.fsf@anie.imag.fr/ [2]: http://public-inbox.org/git/1488007487-12965-5-git-send-email-kannan.siddharth12@gmail.com/

Thanks, Siddharth.