On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 2:08 AM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > This teaches the new "@{-1} syntax to refer to the previous branch to "git > branch". After looking at somebody's faulty patch series on a topic > branch too long, if you decide it is not worth merging, you can just say: > > $ git checkout master > $ git branch -D @{-1} > > to get rid of it without having to type the name of the topic you now hate > so much for wasting a lot of your time. I hope I'm not the person who motivated this new syntax. :-) j. -- 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