On Thu, Feb 17, 2022 at 7:51 AM Erlend Aasland <Erlend-A@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On 16 Feb 2022, at 20:03, Eric Sunshine <sunshine@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Patches implementing this behavior for `git branch -D` have been submitted previously but were rejected (if I recall correctly) since "delete" is a destructive operation, unlike other cases in which `-` is accepted. A relatively recent submission and ensuing discussion is at [1]. > > > > [1]: https://lore.kernel.org/git/20200501222227.GE41612@syl.local/T/ > > Thanks for the heads-up regarding previous discussions, Eric. > > Until now, I've just been using the @{-1} notation, but - is very much faster > to type ;) > > There are no new arguments pro this feature, so I guess the conclusion from > 2020 still stands :) Perhaps. Perhaps not. I may be misreading Junio's responses in this thread, but it didn't seem like he was necessarily opposed to the change. A documentation update as in [1] would be a good idea, though, if resubmitted.
