Re: Feature Request: Allow `-` as a Shortcut for `@{-1}` in `git diff`

From: Kristoffer Haugsbakk <kristofferhaugsbakk@fastmail.com>
Date: Jan 14, 2025, 11:14 UTC
Message-ID: <85491d3b-336c-4b48-b16e-962012b4f5f7@app.fastmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <CAFePT4w4hHZnS0TXGA6-_sA-Vp4f3H_sY2Ue1XreFM3SEM8i2g@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, Jan 14, 2025, at 12:01, tao lv wrote:

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> Hi,
>
> I would like to request a feature for `git diff`: to allow the use of
> `-` as a shortcut for `@{-1}`. Currently, `git merge` and `git
> checkout` both support using `-` as a shortcut for `@{-1}`, and I hope
> this functionality can be extended to `git diff` as well.
>
> Thank you for considering this request.
>
> Best regards

For what it’s worth: a patch to add this for git-branch(1) was rejected in 2022:

https://lore.kernel.org/git/xmqqedwgfpkr.fsf@gitster.g/

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Kristoffer Haugsbakk