Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
> Many of my ideas turn out to be really stupid, and I need to throw
> away my feature branch. So, I find myself doing this often:
>
> # on branch menuconfig-jk
> $ git checkout master
> $ git branch -D<BACKSAPCE>
> # er, what was the branch name again?
> $ git checkout -
> # Ah
> $ git checkout master
> $ git branch -D menuconfig-jk
>
> So, I scripted it for myself. Perhaps we should get the functionality
> in core as `git branch -Dc` (c for "current"; or something)?
What branch will I be on after doing that? Detached at that branch?
> Also, perhaps a `git describe -` corresponding to `git checkout -`
Did you know that the general way to spell the branch previously you
were on is "@{-1}" and "checkout -" is an ugly special case that is
possible only because "checkout" does not happen to take a "-" as a
valid argument that means something else (like the more usual "read
from standard input")?
Perhaps
$ git branch -D @{-1}
would have worked without <BACKSPACE> and everything that follows.
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