Re: Using - for previous branch failing with rebase

2014-03-17 Thread Junio C Hamano
Tim Chase g...@tim.thechases.com 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

Re: Using - for previous branch failing with rebase

2014-03-17 Thread Tim Chase
On 2014-03-16 23:37, Junio C Hamano wrote: Tim Chase g...@tim.thechases.com 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

Using - for previous branch failing with rebase

2014-03-15 Thread Tim Chase
I recently learned that there are several places where git allows use of - to refer to the previous branch, e.g. git checkout -b dev # hack, hack git checkout master git merge - git checkout - However, it doesn't seem to understand - in the context of a rebase: git checkout branch_a