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Re: Stashing untracked files

From
Tom Prince <tom.prince@ualberta.net>
Date
Sep 29, 2007, 22:23 UTC
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<20070929222320.GB2947@hermes.priv>
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> > You could stash untracked files that are not ignored (I personally 
> > ignore *.o, *.a and the like).
> 
> And what if you happen to forget to ignore that?  Or if you happen to 
> have an strace log in some file (which you did not ignore either)?
> 
> Thanks, but I think the semantics of git stash is pretty well defined.  
> And it means that you stash away _tracked_ content that was not yet 
> committed.
> 
> I mean, you can have your desired behaviour with
> 
> $ git add .
> $ git stash
> 
> but if we were to fulfil your wish and change the default behaviour, there 
> is no way back to the current behaviour (which I happen to find pretty 
> sane).
But

git add . git stash git stash apply

will not be a no-op any more.

It doesn't need to be a default, but there are certainly times when I would find the option to stash untracked files convenient.

  Tom
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  1. Neil MacnealeSep 29, 2007
  2. Johannes SchindelinSep 29, 2007
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  5. Johannes SchindelinSep 29, 2007
  6. Neil MacnealeSep 30, 2007
  7. Steffen ProhaskaSep 30, 2007
  8. Wincent ColaiutaSep 30, 2007
  9. Johannes SchindelinSep 29, 2007
  10. Tom PrinceSep 29, 2007
  11. Johannes SchindelinSep 29, 2007
  12. Tom TobinSep 30, 2007
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