On 2014-03-16 23:37, Junio C Hamano wrote: > 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... Not sure if the "Hint, hint" was intended for me, as I'm not exactly a git hacker. I did find another place where I reached for it instinctively (now that I use it regularly with checkout/merge): git-diff. git checkout some_branch #hack git commit -m "..." git checkout other_branch # hmm...what's different between these branches? git diff - which I would have expected to act something like git diff some_branch..other_branch Just for the archives. -tkc (or possibly the reverse) -- 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