From: Junio C Hamano Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2013 19:15:08 GMT Subject: Re: [RFC] Delete current branch Message-ID: <7vy592uzsz.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <20130719170830.GD5999@euporie> Taylor Hedberg writes: > 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.