Re: [PATCH][Outreachy] branch -D: allow - as abbreviation of @{-1}

From: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Date: Mar 21, 2016, 19:14 UTC
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On Mon, Mar 21, 2016 at 2:53 PM, elena petrashen <elena.petrashen@gmail.com> wrote:

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> Thank you for the feedback!
> The safety concert is indeed a good point. Would it maybe make
> sense to request user to confirm this operation? I.e:
> $git delete -D -
> You've requested to delete "foo" branch. Proceed with deleting? y/n

Rather than requiring the user to stop and answer a question, an alternative would be to perform the deletion as requested but then give advice about how to recover if the wrong branch was deleted by mistake, much in the way advice is given when switching to a detached head. (And, the advice could be suppressed by an "advice" configuration variable similar to how other advice messages can be suppressed.)

> Also, do you think - shortcut is justifiable for $git branch -m when
> referring to the "old branch"?

It comes up once in a while that I've switched away from a branch and then decide I want to rename it, but it's infrequent enough that it's difficult to say if it would be generally useful.