From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Sat, 13 Aug 2022 22:28:40 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] branch: allow "-" as a short-hand for "previous branch"
Message-ID: <xmqqczd393s7.fsf@gitster.g>
In-Reply-To: <be21e2ba-1c57-a5aa-a986-64413f3983c3@gmail.com>

Rubén Justo <rjusto@gmail.com> writes:

> Previous to this, I thought about making also a "git diff -",
> ...
> Also discarded the "git diff -" change, because of so many flags and
> conditions "diff" has. So I only sent the "branch -" patch.

Yeah, that is why the approach Johannes showed, i.e. instead of
making "in this context but not in that context, '-' means
'previous'" changes to random commands, teaching anybody that takes
@{-1} to understand that '-' means 'previous' everywhere, appears
very tempting.