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From: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp.fr>
To: Siddharth Kannan <kannan.siddharth12@gmail.com>
Cc: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
	Git List <git@vger.kernel.org>,
	Pranit Bauva <pranit.bauva@gmail.com>, Jeff King <peff@peff.net>,
	pclouds@gmail.com,
	"brian m. carlson" <sandals@crustytoothpaste.ath.cx>
Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC] WIP: log: allow "-" as a short-hand for "previous branch"
Date: Thu, 09 Feb 2017 13:25:54 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <vpqwpczlfe5.fsf@anie.imag.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAN-3QhoZN_wYvqbVdU_c1h4vUOaT5FOBFL7k+FemNpqkxjWDDA@mail.gmail.com> (Siddharth Kannan's message of "Wed, 8 Feb 2017 22:53:05 +0530")

Siddharth Kannan <kannan.siddharth12@gmail.com> writes:

> Hello Matthieu,
>
> On 8 February 2017 at 20:10, Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp.fr> wrote:
>> In a previous discussion, I made an analogy with "cd -" (which is the
>> source of inspiration of this shorthand AFAIK): "-" did not magically
>> become "the last visited directory" for all Unix commands, just for
>> "cd". And in this case, I'm happy with it. For example, I never need
>> "mkdir -", and I'm happy I can't "rm -fr -" by mistake.
>>
>> So, it's debatable whether it's a good thing to have all commands
>> support "-". For example, forcing users to explicitly type "git branch
>> -d @{1}" and not providing them with a shortcut might be a good thing.
>
> builtin/branch.c does not call setup_revisions and remains unaffected
> by this patch :)

Right, I forgot this: in some place we need any revspec, but "branch -d"
needs a branch name explicitly.

> [...]
> As you might notice, in this list, most commands are not of the `rm` variety,
> i.e. something that would delete stuff.

OK, I think I'm convinced.

Keep the arguments in mind when polishing the commit message.

-- 
Matthieu Moy
http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/

  reply	other threads:[~2017-02-09 14:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-02-05 12:57 [PATCH/RFC] WIP: log: allow "-" as a short-hand for "previous branch" Siddharth Kannan
2017-02-05 14:55 ` Pranit Bauva
2017-02-06  0:15 ` Junio C Hamano
2017-02-06  2:27   ` Siddharth Kannan
2017-02-06 18:10   ` Siddharth Kannan
2017-02-06 23:09     ` Junio C Hamano
2017-02-07 19:14       ` Siddharth Kannan
2017-02-08 14:40         ` Matthieu Moy
2017-02-08 17:23           ` Siddharth Kannan
2017-02-09 12:25             ` Matthieu Moy [this message]
2017-02-09 18:21               ` Siddharth Kannan

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