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From: Robert Dailey <rcdailey.lists@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: How to use @{-1} with push?
Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2016 13:02:27 -0500
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On Fri, Mar 25, 2016 at 12:45 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> You can ask rev-parse to give you --symbolic-full-name, error out if
> it is empty (i.e. detached HEAD), and otherwise use the result, no?
>
>     $ git checkout next
>     $ git checkout master
>     $ git rev-parse --symbolic-full-name @{-1}
>     refs/heads/master
>     $ git checkout HEAD^0
>     $ git checkout master
>     $ git rev-parse --symbolic-full-name @{-1}
>     $ exit
>
> And
>
>     $ git push origin :refs/heads/master
>
> would be the fully-spelled out way to remove that branch.

Thanks Junio, I figured there was a command to do that. I tried to do
this using '-' shorthand, but that didn't work. I guess because that's
not really a revision, but a special function of git checkout only.