Re: [PATCH] checkout: implement "-" shortcut name for last branch

Johannes Schindelin wrote:

On Thu, 15 Jan 2009, Thomas Rast wrote:

quoted

Let git-checkout save the old branch as a symref in LAST_HEAD, and
make 'git checkout -' switch back to LAST_HEAD, like 'cd -' does in
the shell.

Actually, what you want is in the reflog, no?  So... parsing 
.git/logs/HEAD for the latest occurrence of "checkout: moving from " and 
then using everything up until the next space should give you the branch 
name, right?

It just feels wrong to grab that information from there; it's a
free-form comment field for user consumption.  And it wasn't even that
hard to implement a LAST_HEAD.

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Thomas Rast
trast@{inf,student}.ethz.ch