stash clear, was Re: git: avoiding merges, rebasing

[Johannes Schindelin]

Hi,

On Tue, 2 Oct 2007, Eric Blake wrote:

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> According to Bruno Haible on 10/2/2007 5:50 AM:
> > Hello Benoit,
> > 
> >>>     $ git stash
> >>>     $ git pull
> >>>     $ git stash apply
> >>>     $ git stash clean              ; typo!
> >>>     $ git stash clear              ; fatal correction to typo!
> >>>
> >>> and lost 20 modified files. Well, not really lost. Just took me a  
> >>> while to
> >> I don't really see how and why you "lost 20 modified files".
> > 
> > I lost modifications to 20 files. "git stash clean" moved these 
> > modifications
> > into a stash named "clean", and "git stash clear" killed it.
> 
> While we're at it, I wish 'git stash clear' would take an optional 
> argument that says which stash(es) to clear, rather than blindly 
> clearing the entire stash.

I'd rather avoid "enhancing" stash clear.  IMHO it is a little 
misdesigned, making it way too easy to hang yourself.

Instead, how about writing a stash pop?  "git stash pop [<stash>]".  It 
would literally just call git stash apply && git reflog delete.  Should 
not be too difficult, now that I provided "git reflog delete" ;-)

Maybe even deprecating "git stash clear", or doing away with it 
altogether.

Ciao,
Dscho