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Re: Git help requested: "git stash pop" is doing an unwanted "git add".


From: Alan Mackenzie
Subject: Re: Git help requested: "git stash pop" is doing an unwanted "git add". Why?
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 2015 20:26:21 +0000
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12)

Hello, Eli.

On Mon, Dec 21, 2015 at 05:35:06AM +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Date: Sun, 20 Dec 2015 22:01:28 +0000
> > From: Alan Mackenzie <address@hidden>

> > I'm clearing out a "stash stack" in my master repository copy.  I've
> > just done "git stash pop", expecting git to pop the changes into my
> > working directory.

> > Well, there were 2 files with conflicts - fair enough.  But with all the
> > other files, git has had the cheek to do a "git add" (I think the jargon
> > for this is "moved the files to the staging area"), leaving me with the
> > hassle of doing a "git reset" on quite a lot of files.

> > Why has the "git stash pop" done this, and how can I call "git stash
> > pop" in the future, avoiding this annoying problem?

> It's "git stash pop", yes.  You need to "git reset" after "stash pop",
> if you want to be sure the changes are not staged (a.k.a. "in the
> index").

It looks like it.  I've dropped a note to the git mailing list,
suggesting that this is a bug.  We'll see if anything comes of that.

-- 
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).



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