From: Jay Soffian <jaysoffian@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 14 Feb 2009 07:11:41 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] teach the new "@{-1} syntax to "git branch"
Message-ID: <76718490902132311j5add87bcpb103c951a8192b05@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <7v4oyxzeay.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 2:08 AM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> This teaches the new "@{-1} syntax to refer to the previous branch to "git
> branch".  After looking at somebody's faulty patch series on a topic
> branch too long, if you decide it is not worth merging, you can just say:
>
>    $ git checkout master
>    $ git branch -D @{-1}
>
> to get rid of it without having to type the name of the topic you now hate
> so much for wasting a lot of your time.

I hope I'm not the person who motivated this new syntax. :-)

j.