Re: Using "-" for "previous branch" failing with rebase

Tim Chase [off-list ref] writes:

On 2014-03-16 23:37, Junio C Hamano wrote:

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Tim Chase [off-list ref] writes:

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Is this just an interface inconsistency or is there a some
technical reason this doesn't work (or, has it been
addressed/fixed, and just not pulled into Debian Stable's
1.7.10.4 version of git)?

It is merely that nobody thought "rebase" would benefit from such a
short-hand, I think.

    Teach more commands that operate on branch names about "-"
    shorthand for "the branch we were previously on", like we did
    for "git merge -" sometime after we introduced "git checkout -"

has been sitting in my "leftover bits" list at

    http://git-blame.blogspot.com/p/leftover-bits.html

for quite some time.  Hint, hint...

Not sure if the "Hint, hint" was intended for me,...

No.  It is primarily a search-engine bait ;-) and is secondarily a
hint to any aspiring Git hackers on the list.

In general, I am not very enthused to see the single letter "-" used
where you name any commit object (like "diff").  It is a short-hand
for the @{-1} notation that names the branch name, and it is OK in
general to add support for it to the places where we expect a branch
name and not just any commit object name (e.g. "checkout -"), but
maybe it is just me who was heavily involved in the original design.