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From: "Kristoffer Haugsbakk" <kristofferhaugsbakk@fastmail•com>
To: "tao lv" <thebookofunknowable@gmail•com>, git@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: Feature Request: Allow `-` as a Shortcut for `@{-1}` in `git diff`
Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2025 12:14:11 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <85491d3b-336c-4b48-b16e-962012b4f5f7@app.fastmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAFePT4w4hHZnS0TXGA6-_sA-Vp4f3H_sY2Ue1XreFM3SEM8i2g@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, Jan 14, 2025, at 12:01, tao lv wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I would like to request a feature for `git diff`: to allow the use of
> `-` as a shortcut for `@{-1}`. Currently, `git merge` and `git
> checkout` both support using `-` as a shortcut for `@{-1}`, and I hope
> this functionality can be extended to `git diff` as well.
>
> Thank you for considering this request.
>
> Best regards

For what it’s worth: a patch to add this for git-branch(1) was rejected in 2022:

https://lore.kernel.org/git/xmqqedwgfpkr.fsf@gitster.g/

-- 
Kristoffer Haugsbakk

      reply	other threads:[~2025-01-14 11:14 UTC|newest]

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2025-01-14 11:01 Feature Request: Allow `-` as a Shortcut for `@{-1}` in `git diff` tao lv
2025-01-14 11:14 ` Kristoffer Haugsbakk [this message]

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