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Re: Another use of "@"?

From
Thomas Rast <trast@inf.ethz.ch>
Date
May 3, 2013, 09:23 UTC
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Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com> writes:
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> On Fri, May 3, 2013 at 4:38 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
>> Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:
>>
>>> Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com> writes:
>>>
>>>> My setup is a bit peculiar where I do git development on three
>>>> different machines. Say I updated branch long-branch-name on machine
>>>> A. Then I continue my work on machine B. I would want to hard reset
>>>> that long-branch-name on machine B before resuming my work. What I
>>>> usually do is
>>>>
>>>> git co long-branch-name
>>>> git diff A/long-branch-name
>>>> git reset --hard A/long-branch-name
>>>
>>> Perhaps
>>>
>>>     git checkout long-bra<TAB>
>>>     git diff A/!$
>>>     git reset --hard !$
>
> "diff" does not have to follow "checkout".

At least in bash with readline, you can also use M-. to cycle through the last arguments of the previous commands.

-- 
Thomas Rast
trast@{inf,student}.ethz.ch
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Message 5 of 11 in “Another use of "@"?”
  1. Duy NguyenMay 3, 2013
  2. Junio C HamanoMay 3, 2013
  3. Junio C HamanoMay 3, 2013
  4. Duy NguyenMay 3, 2013
  5. Thomas RastMay 3, 2013
  6. Matthieu MoyMay 3, 2013
  7. Duy NguyenMay 4, 2013
  8. Duy NguyenMay 4, 2013
  9. Felipe ContrerasMay 3, 2013
  10. Ramkumar RamachandraMay 4, 2013
  11. Matthieu MoyMay 4, 2013

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