Re: [PATCH] branch: add '-' to delete previous branch

> Ivan Tham <pickfire@riseup.net> writes:
>
> > Add support to delete previous branch from git checkout/switch to have
> > feature parity with git switch -.
>
> Maybe I'm late on this, but to me, who leaves in the Linux world,
> "a_command -" strongly suggests a_command will read further input
> from stdin.
>
> [...]
>
> > +To delete the previous branch::
> > ++
> > +------------
> > +$ git branch -D -
>
> ... so this suggests that the command, when used like this:
>
> $ echo "branch_name" | git branch -D -
>
> will delete "branch_name" rather than some "previous" branch, whatever
> that means.
>
> Is this short-cut /that/ important to create yet another confusion?