Hi, Jonathan Nieder wrote: > Hi, > > François WAUQUIER wrote: > >> $ git checkout - >> >> I often use this command to go back to previous branch from my history. >> It is quite natural as it uses the same syntax as “cd -“ >> >> But i found out it is not documented in >> https://git-scm.com/docs/git-checkout/2.24.0 >> I report this to help others to discover this time saving command. > > Thanks for reporting! > > Ideas for what the documentation should say about it? (Bonus points > if it comes in the form of a patch against Documentation/git-checkout.txt. > ;-) See [1] for more about how that works.) Not to say that it can't possibly be improved, but it is mentioned in the git-checkout docs here[1]. The second paragraph in that section says: You can use the @{-N} syntax to refer to the N-th last branch/commit checked out using "git checkout" operation. You may also specify - which is synonymous to @{-1}. This is also in the git-switch documentation, where it might be easier to find, as it's very close to the beginning of git-switch's man page, in the "<start-point>" entry of the OPTIONS section[2]. Being easy to miss in the git-checkout documentation might make Duy smile; it shows the benefit of splitting some of the many features of 'checkout' to the 'switch' command. :) [1] https://git-scm.com/docs/git-checkout#Documentation/git-checkout.txt-ltbranchgt [2] https://git-scm.com/docs/git-switch#Documentation/git-switch.txt-ltstart-pointgt -- Todd
