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Re: [RFC] Delete current branch

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Jul 19, 2013, 19:15 UTC
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Taylor Hedberg <tmhedberg@gmail.com> writes:
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> Junio C Hamano, Fri 2013-07-19 @ 09:48:06-0700:
>> 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.
> ...
> What would it mean to check out the standard input, anyway?
That is my point exactly, isn't it?

You have to ask that question "What would it mean to do X on the standard input?" for every operation X you might want to use the short-cut "-" for.

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  1. Ramkumar RamachandraJul 19, 2013
  2. Andreas SchwabJul 19, 2013
  3. Ramkumar RamachandraJul 19, 2013
  4. Junio C HamanoJul 19, 2013
  5. Ramkumar RamachandraJul 19, 2013
  6. Junio C HamanoJul 19, 2013
  7. Ramkumar RamachandraJul 19, 2013
  8. Taylor HedbergJul 19, 2013
  9. Junio C HamanoJul 19, 2013
  10. Junio C HamanoJul 19, 2013

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