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

From: Sergey Organov <sorganov@gmail.com>
Date: May 1, 2020, 10:22 UTC
Message-ID: <87r1w43qfy.fsf@osv.gnss.ru>
In-Reply-To: <20200501094432.u3bl24qou5sgbgxk@carbon>

Konstantin Khomoutov <kostix@bswap.ru> writes:

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> On Fri, May 01, 2020 at 12:18:31PM +0300, Sergey Organov wrote:
>
> [...]
>> >> I would speculate that `git checkout -` may have learned about "-"
>> >> simply from the `cd -` ...
>> >
>> > You do not have to speculate.  You only need to read what has been
>> > already said in the thread ;-).
>> 
>> Should I expect "git checkout ~" to get me to my "home" branch then? ;-)
>
> Heh, no you shouldn't: the '~' is expanded by the shell itself according
> to its parameter expansion rules, so `cd` never sees the bare tilde
> in this case ;-)

Yeah, but then git could compare its argument to $HOME and "do the right thing" ;-) Just kidding, obviously.

That said, bare "cd" also changes to home directory, so bare "git checkout" could become as useful.

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>> Actually, that could be a good idea. I mean, to have "home" branch
>> notion and a short-cut for it.
>
> I have no say for the idea per se but you would have hard time using
> bare tilda character for that precisely because of it being special to
> Unix shells - you'd need to escape it all the time (though something
> like unquoted @{~} would work just OK).

Yes, plain '~' won't do.

-- Sergey