From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Sun, 15 Feb 2009 02:32:50 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] Teach @{-1} to git merge
Message-ID: <7v63jcqvjh.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <7vfxigqwsp.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:

> The advertised new feature is that you can use the @{-1} syntax anywhere
> you would use a branch name and it would work as if you typed the name of
> the branch, so in that sense show-branch that shows @{-1} and does not
> show the name of the branch is a bug.

I've checked "checkout -b new -t @{-1}", too.  Just for completeness's
sake.