Taylor Hedberg <tmhedberg@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > Junio C Hamano, Fri 2013-07-19 @ 09:48:06-0700: >> But there is a very commonly accepted long tradition for "-" to mean >> "read from the standard input", so we cannot reuse it to mean "the >> branch I was previously on" for every command without first making >> sure the command will never want to use "-" for the other common >> purpose. > ... > What would it mean to check out the standard input, anyway? That is my point exactly, isn't it? You have to ask that question "What would it mean to do X on the standard input?" for every operation X you might want to use the short-cut "-" for. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html