Re: [PATCH] branch: add '-' to delete previous branch
- From
- Konstantin Khomoutov <kostix@bswap.ru>
- Date
- May 1, 2020, 09:44 UTC
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- <20200501094432.u3bl24qou5sgbgxk@carbon>
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- <87zhas3teg.fsf@osv.gnss.ru>
On Fri, May 01, 2020 at 12:18:31PM +0300, Sergey Organov wrote:
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> >> I would speculate that `git checkout -` may have learned about "-" > >> simply from the `cd -` ... > > > > You do not have to speculate. You only need to read what has been > > already said in the thread ;-). > > Should I expect "git checkout ~" to get me to my "home" branch then? ;-)
Heh, no you shouldn't: the '~' is expanded by the shell itself according to its parameter expansion rules, so `cd` never sees the bare tilde in this case ;-)
> Actually, that could be a good idea. I mean, to have "home" branch > notion and a short-cut for it.
I have no say for the idea per se but you would have hard time using bare tilda character for that precisely because of it being special to Unix shells - you'd need to escape it all the time (though something like unquoted @{~} would work just OK).