From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2015 20:16:43 GMT
Subject: Re: [JFF] "-" and "@{-1}" on various programs
Message-ID: <xmqqoanz5lxw.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <55003757.8090004@drmicha.warpmail.net>

Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net> writes:

> Junio C Hamano venit, vidit, dixit 10.03.2015 21:20:
>> JFF stands for just for fun.
>> ...
>> What does not work are what needs further tweaking in revision.c
>> parser.  "git checkout master && git checkout next && git log -.."
>> should show what next has on top of master but I didn't touch the
>> range notation so it does not work, for example.
>> 
>>  builtin/checkout.c |  3 ---
>>  builtin/merge.c    |  3 +--
>>  builtin/revert.c   |  2 --
>>  revision.c         |  2 +-
>>  sha1_name.c        | 57 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------------------
>>  5 files changed, 37 insertions(+), 30 deletions(-)
>
> Like it :)
>
> It removes the special casing and makes a shorthand available
> systematically. I'd say it's useful even without extending it to ranges.

I wouldn't have done this if I thought it will lead to an unusable
blind alley ;-) But I won't be hacking on this any further for now.

Hint hint...