From: Jörg Sommer Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2007 15:42:11 GMT Subject: Re: git-stash: RFC: Adopt the default behavior to other commands Message-ID: <20071218154211.GB12549@alea.gnuu.de> In-Reply-To: <7vfxy04ze7.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> Hi, Junio C Hamano schrieb am Mon 17. Dec, 16:31 (-0800): > Benoit Sigoure writes: > > >> Benoit Sigoure writes: > >> > >>> ... The current behavior of git stash is very > >>> dangerous ... > > ... > >> This is a plain FUD, isn't it? The first Oops should not happen these > >> days. > > But the original point by Sebastian hasn't been answered. He wanted to > make the command list the stash without arguments. > > This was discussed already in the early days of stash and there indeed > was a suggestion to do so (I think I sided with that), but the users did > not want it. IIRC, the argument went like: "when I say 'stash', that is > because I want a quick and immediate way to stash, and I do not want a > list. If I do not have to have a quick way, I would create a temporary > commit on the current branch, or switch to a temporary branch and commit > there." When it should go quick why don't use an alias. git stash can print the list and everyone who wants a quick stash can create an alias for this. I vote for stash print the list, because I dropped in the pitfall. Bye, Jörg. -- Die beste Tarnung ist die Wahrheit. Die glaubt einem keiner! (Max Frisch: ‚Biedermann und die Brandstifter‘)