Feature request: Push/Pop-GitBranch commands

[DJackman123]

I'd really love to be able to keep a stack of recent branches I've switched to, similar to how the Push/Pop-Location cmdlets work. This is something I could easily write myself, but I would also want these new functions to have tab completion on the branch names. That's something posh-git is already doing for git commands. But if I'm writing my own function in my profile, posh-git isn't providing anything for me to use to provide the same tab completion functionality, so I would have to copy code in order to implement it.

So here is my first question: does it make sense to add a Push-GitBranch and Pop-GitBranch command to posh-git, or does that go against the grain of what posh-git is trying to provide?
And if it doesn't make sense to add these commands in posh-git, what about the idea of exposing some of the posh-git functionality as functions that my own functions can call to avoid having to duplicate code?

[rkeithhill]

posh-git has avoided providing PowerShell like cmdlets on top of Git. There are modules that do that e.g. https://www.powershellgallery.com/packages/PSGit/2.1.0 However, it would make sense for posh-git to provide tab-completion service for other commands. There's already some talk of this in issue #852.

[dahlbyk]

This seems to overlap quite a bit with #641, which I've been meaning to revisit. Actually tracking a branch stack may be handy in some situations, but it seems primary use case is probably adequately covered by tab-completing recent branches first?

Also, in case you're not aware: git checkout - is a shorthand for git checkout @{-1}, which you can use to switch to your most recent other branch.

[DJackman123]

Actually, I was not aware of the git checkout @{-1} syntax. That is pretty close to what I was looking for. Thanks for letting me know! Looks like the idea of opening up the tab completion for other commands is already being tracked, so I'm closing this issue.

[dahlbyk]

Thanks for the suggestion!

For your and anyone else's reference, git help revisions documents a whole bunch of useful syntax for referring to various points in time.