Re: [PATCH] git-stash: add new 'drop' subcommand

From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Jan 5, 2008, 03:51 UTC
Message-ID: <20080105035118.GB26892@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <477EDDD4.5060509@nrlssc.navy.mil>

On Fri, Jan 04, 2008 at 07:31:00PM -0600, Brandon Casey wrote:

> Thus far I haven't been a big user of git stash, but I plan to
> use it more and I expect to use 'drop' more often than
> 'clear'. I expect in the common case there will be a single

There was some discussion of a sensible name, but I don't recall seeing a resolution on this: why not "clear stash@{0}" to clear one, and "clear" to clear all? Otherwise, I foresee "git stash clear stash@{0}" followed by "oops, I just deleted all of my stashes."

I guess you get "git stash drop" as a synonym for "git stash drop stash@{0}" this way, but it just seems mean to users to make them remember which of "drop" and "clear" does what they want.

-Peff