From: Konstantin Khomoutov <kostix@bswap.ru>
Date: Fri, 01 May 2020 09:44:32 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] branch: add '-' to delete previous branch
Message-ID: <20200501094432.u3bl24qou5sgbgxk@carbon>
In-Reply-To: <87zhas3teg.fsf@osv.gnss.ru>

On Fri, May 01, 2020 at 12:18:31PM +0300, Sergey Organov wrote:

[...]
> >> 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).