Re: [PATCH] branch: delete now accepts '-' as branch name

From: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
To: Erlend Aasland <Erlend-A@innova.no>
Cc: "git@vger.kernel.org" <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] branch: delete now accepts '-' as branch name
Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2022 12:13:10 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAPig+cR0Ks2bnTRqs3uF4M+3q+n9X6pApBQ9HQTUq=zK5TpuXQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <400A4D37-74EA-4F3B-BA3B-99FFDAE3CB3C@innova.no>

On Thu, Feb 17, 2022 at 7:51 AM Erlend Aasland <Erlend-A@innova.no> wrote:
> > On 16 Feb 2022, at 20:03, Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com> wrote:
> > Patches implementing this behavior for `git branch -D` have been submitted previously but were rejected (if I recall correctly) since "delete" is a destructive operation, unlike other cases in which `-` is accepted. A relatively recent submission and ensuing discussion is at [1].
> >
> > [1]: https://lore.kernel.org/git/20200501222227.GE41612@syl.local/T/
>
> Thanks for the heads-up regarding previous discussions, Eric.
>
> Until now, I've just been using the @{-1} notation, but - is very much faster
> to type ;)
>
> There are no new arguments pro this feature, so I guess the conclusion from
> 2020 still stands :)

Perhaps. Perhaps not. I may be misreading Junio's responses in this
thread, but it didn't seem like he was necessarily opposed to the
change. A documentation update as in [1] would be a good idea, though,
if resubmitted.