Re: [RFC] Delete current branch

> Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Junio C Hamano wrote:
>>> Did you know that the general way to spell the branch previously you
>>> were on is "@{-1}" and "checkout -" is an ugly special case that is
>>> possible only because "checkout" does not happen to take a "-" as a
>>> valid argument that means something else (like the more usual "read
>>> from standard input")?
>>
>> I disagree that it is ugly: it's a very commonly used shortcut that I
>> like.
>
> It does not matter if you like it or not ;-).
>
> I do agree that "checkout -" is 100% more pleasing to the eye than
> "checkout @{-1}" from visual "prettyness" point of view.
>
> But there is a very commonly accepted long tradition for "-" to mean
> "read from the standard input", so we cannot reuse it to mean "the
> branch I was previously on" for every command without first making
> sure the command will never want to use "-" for the other common
> purpose.
>
> That limits the context we could use "-" and we cannot consistently
> use it everywhere. I find _that_ ugly from the "design cleanliness"
> point of view.