# Feature Request: Allow `-` as a Shortcut for `@{-1}` in `git diff` 2 messages from 2025-01-14 to 2025-01-14. Participants: tao lv, Kristoffer Haugsbakk. Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/62803 ## tao lv, 2025-01-14 11:01 Subject: Feature Request: Allow `-` as a Shortcut for `@{-1}` in `git diff` Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/CAFePT4w4hHZnS0TXGA6-_sA-Vp4f3H_sY2Ue1XreFM3SEM8i2g%40mail.gmail.com ``` Hi, I would like to request a feature for `git diff`: to allow the use of `-` as a shortcut for `@{-1}`. Currently, `git merge` and `git checkout` both support using `-` as a shortcut for `@{-1}`, and I hope this functionality can be extended to `git diff` as well. Thank you for considering this request. Best regards ``` ## Kristoffer Haugsbakk, 2025-01-14 11:14 Subject: Re: Feature Request: Allow `-` as a Shortcut for `@{-1}` in `git diff` Message-ID: <85491d3b-336c-4b48-b16e-962012b4f5f7@app.fastmail.com> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/85491d3b-336c-4b48-b16e-962012b4f5f7%40app.fastmail.com In-Reply-To: ``` On Tue, Jan 14, 2025, at 12:01, tao lv wrote: > Hi, > > I would like to request a feature for `git diff`: to allow the use of > `-` as a shortcut for `@{-1}`. Currently, `git merge` and `git > checkout` both support using `-` as a shortcut for `@{-1}`, and I hope > this functionality can be extended to `git diff` as well. > > Thank you for considering this request. > > Best regards For what it’s worth: a patch to add this for git-branch(1) was rejected in 2022: https://lore.kernel.org/git/xmqqedwgfpkr.fsf@gitster.g/ -- Kristoffer Haugsbakk ```