Tim Chase <git@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > Is this just an interface inconsistency or is there a some technical > reason this doesn't work (or, has it been addressed/fixed, and just > not pulled into Debian Stable's 1.7.10.4 version of git)? It is merely that nobody thought "rebase" would benefit from such a short-hand, I think. Teach more commands that operate on branch names about "-" shorthand for "the branch we were previously on", like we did for "git merge -" sometime after we introduced "git checkout -" has been sitting in my "leftover bits" list at http://git-blame.blogspot.com/p/leftover-bits.html for quite some time. Hint, hint... -- 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