On Mon, Aug 8, 2022 at 4:47 PM Junio C Hamano<gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
The "-d" and "-D" options being the more detructive ones among other operation modes of the command, I am not sure if this change is even desirable. Even if it were, the implementation to special case a single argument case like this ...+ if ((argc == 1) && !strcmp(argv[0], "-")) { + argv[0] = "@{-1}"; + }... (by the way, we don't write braces around a single statement block) would invite cries from confused users why none of these ... $ git branch -m - new-name $ git branch new-branch - $ git branch --set-upstream-to=<upstream> - work and "-" works only for deletion.
Agree. But the approach is to ease the deletion of previous branch, aligned with merge: $ git merge - - merge: - - not something we can merge $ git merge - old-branch merge: - - not something we can merge In fact, I think it is a bit confuse to allow use it that way, and probably induces to error. Haven't think about -m, -c. If you think it is a good addition, I can do it. I can fix the braces around that single statement block, sorry.
