From: Wincent Colaiuta <win@wincent.com>
Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2007 13:18:17 GMT
Subject: Re: Stashing untracked files
Message-ID: <115E3AB7-BE23-472B-9321-641901054A6A@wincent.com>
In-Reply-To: <46FF1F1E.2050000@theory.org>

El 30/9/2007, a las 5:59, Neil Macneale escribió:

> $ git stash -u   # stash everything, even untracked files. I never
>                  # suggesting modifying the default behavior.

Provided it's not the default behaviour, and provided that it doesn't  
add ignored files, this sounds perfectly reasonable and potentially  
quite useful.

I say *potentially* only because I've yet to find a situation wherein  
I can't just do the following:

<hack>                # lots of untracked files floating around
$ git stash           # untracked files stay exactly where they were
<orthogonal hacking>  # untracked files still there
$ git stash apply     # still there...
<hack>                # still there...

If the content of the untracked files is both, (a) important and (b)  
being modified over time, then perhaps it should be being tracked.

Wincent