Signed-off-by: Elena Petrashen <[email protected]>

---
This micro-patch is meant to allow “-“ as a short-hand for
“@{-1} for branch -D (Cf. $gmane/230828):

* git branch (-d | -D) is not supposed to accept any other
arguments except for branch name so it makes sense to replace
the argv[i] with @{-1}. We will not lose the opportunity to
use it for something different for other git branch uses if
we will decide it’s required.

* the small allow_dash_as_prev_branch_alias function can be
reused to teach git branch -m to allow “-“ as a short-hand for
“@{-1}  as well and possibly makes it easy to understand what’s
going on in the code

* if there’s no previous branch in the repository yet, a
specific warning message is given

Thank you! Looking forward to any feedback.

 Documentation/git-branch.txt |  5 ++++-
 builtin/branch.c             | 18 +++++++++++++++---
 t/t3200-branch.sh            | 10 ++++++++++
 3 files changed, 29 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/git-branch.txt b/Documentation/git-branch.txt
index 4a7037f..9f43665 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-branch.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-branch.txt
@@ -64,7 +64,10 @@ to happen.
 
 With a `-d` or `-D` option, `<branchname>` will be deleted.  You may
 specify more than one branch for deletion.  If the branch currently
-has a reflog then the reflog will also be deleted.
+has a reflog then the reflog will also be deleted. 
+As a special case, the "@{-N}" syntax for the N-th last branch
+deletes the specified branch.  You may also specify - which is synonymous
+with "@{-1}".
 
 Use `-r` together with `-d` to delete remote-tracking branches. Note, that it
 only makes sense to delete remote-tracking branches if they no longer exist
diff --git a/builtin/branch.c b/builtin/branch.c
index 7b45b6b..9614d18 100644
--- a/builtin/branch.c
+++ b/builtin/branch.c
@@ -169,6 +169,8 @@ static int check_branch_commit(const char *branchname, 
const char *refname,
        return 0;
 }
 
+
+
 static void delete_branch_config(const char *branchname)
 {
        struct strbuf buf = STRBUF_INIT;
@@ -178,6 +180,12 @@ static void delete_branch_config(const char *branchname)
        strbuf_release(&buf);
 }
 
+static void allow_dash_as_prev_branch_alias(const char **argv, int 
dash_position)
+{
+       if (!strcmp(argv[dash_position], "-"))
+               argv[dash_position] = "@{-1}";
+}
+
 static int delete_branches(int argc, const char **argv, int force, int kinds,
                           int quiet)
 {
@@ -210,10 +218,12 @@ static int delete_branches(int argc, const char **argv, 
int force, int kinds,
                if (!head_rev)
                        die(_("Couldn't look up commit object for HEAD"));
        }
+
        for (i = 0; i < argc; i++, strbuf_release(&bname)) {
                const char *target;
                int flags = 0;
 
+               allow_dash_as_prev_branch_alias(argv, i);
                strbuf_branchname(&bname, argv[i]);
                if (kinds == FILTER_REFS_BRANCHES && !strcmp(head, bname.buf)) {
                        error(_("Cannot delete the branch '%s' "
@@ -231,9 +241,11 @@ static int delete_branches(int argc, const char **argv, 
int force, int kinds,
                                            | RESOLVE_REF_ALLOW_BAD_NAME,
                                            sha1, &flags);
                if (!target) {
-                       error(remote_branch
-                             ? _("remote-tracking branch '%s' not found.")
-                             : _("branch '%s' not found."), bname.buf);
+                       error(!strcmp(bname.buf, "@{-1}")
+                               ? _("There is no previous branch that could be 
referred to at the moment.")
+                               : remote_branch
+                                       ? _("remote-tracking branch '%s' not 
found.")
+                                       : _("branch '%s' not found."), 
bname.buf);
                        ret = 1;
                        continue;
                }
diff --git a/t/t3200-branch.sh b/t/t3200-branch.sh
index a897248..d21369f 100755
--- a/t/t3200-branch.sh
+++ b/t/t3200-branch.sh
@@ -403,6 +403,16 @@ test_expect_success 'test deleting branch without config' '
        test_i18ncmp expect actual
 '
 
+test_expect_success 'test deleting "-" deletes previous branch' '
+       git checkout -b prev &&
+       test_commit prev &&
+       git checkout master &&
+       git branch -D - >actual &&
+       sha1=$(git rev-parse prev | cut -c 1-7) &&
+       echo "Deleted branch prev (was $sha1)." >expect &&
+       test_cmp expect actual
+'
+
 test_expect_success 'test --track without .fetch entries' '
        git branch --track my8 &&
        test "$(git config branch.my8.remote)" &&
-- 
2.8.0.rc3.12.g047057b.dirty

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