From: Sergey Organov <sorganov@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2020 13:37:27 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] branch: add '-' to delete previous branch
Message-ID: <877dxyo1k8.fsf@osv.gnss.ru>
In-Reply-To: <20200429130133.520981-1-pickfire@riseup.net>

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