From: Ralf Wildenhues <ralf.wildenhues@gmx.de>
Date: Tue, 06 Nov 2007 07:34:55 GMT
Subject: Re: git pull opinion
Message-ID: <20071106073455.GA19106@ins.uni-bonn.de>
In-Reply-To: <176851C5-D735-4DDC-B799-A5106CD03989@lrde.epita.fr>

Hello,

* Benoit Sigoure wrote on Tue, Nov 06, 2007 at 06:29:58AM CET:
> On Nov 6, 2007, at 5:16 AM, Aghiles wrote:
>
>>> who will run git stash clear? :)
>>
>> Yes you are right. By the way, in the context of merging into a
>> dirty tree, "git stash clear" seems to be a dangerous command:
>> there is a risk of loosing all your changes without a question
>> asked!

I would love it if for once in the git world, there were a pair of
commands that would do the exact opposite of each other and where the
naive newbie (me) would immediately recognize that from their names:
  git stash push
  git stash pop

Both applied in this order should be a no-op on both the working tree,
the index, and also the stash.  There's room for extensions (pop
--keep-stash to not remove the stashed information), explicit naming of
stashes, doing multiple pops at once, and so on.  Please don't add more
of the git-push/git-pull, git-add/git-rm unsymmetrical interfaces.
Even if they're perfectly clear to git intimates, each one of them
takes precious extra time to learn due to this lack of symmetry.

Since I simply don't have the time resources to just implement that,
I'll thank you for your attention and go back to lurking mode now.

Thanks,
Ralf