Re: [PATCH] teach the new "@{-1} syntax to "git branch"

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Feb 14, 2009, 07:21 UTC
Message-ID: <7vzlgpxz4g.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <76718490902132311j5add87bcpb103c951a8192b05@mail.gmail.com>

Jay Soffian <jaysoffian@gmail.com> writes:

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> 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. :-)

Don't worry.

The @{-1} syntax was added long before you started getting hyperactive this round, but it will be in 1.6.2 and has been advertised as "usable anywhere you can use a branch name", but in reality it is not.

I have been fixing up various places to match the reality with the claim. I am making "git merge @{-1}" work now.