Re: [PATCH] branch: add '-' to delete previous branch

Ivan Tham <pickfire@riseup.net> writes:

> Add support to delete previous branch from git checkout/switch to have
> feature parity with git switch -.

Maybe I'm late on this, but to me, who leaves in the Linux world, "a_command -" strongly suggests a_command will read further input from stdin.

[...]

> +To delete the previous branch::
> ++
> +------------
> +$ git branch -D -

... so this suggests that the command, when used like this:

$ echo "branch_name" | git branch -D -

will delete "branch_name" rather than some "previous" branch, whatever that means.

Is this short-cut /that/ important to create yet another confusion?

-- Sergey