From: Pierre Habouzit <madcoder@madism.org>
Date: Sat, 25 Jul 2009 14:58:20 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v2 2/3] Introduce git-discard
Message-ID: <20090725145819.GC18545@artemis.corp>
In-Reply-To: <cf51e6aa92ea98fc9409826cc0468a01fdf7b01e.1248452530.git.trast@student.ethz.ch>

On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 06:24:35PM +0200, Thomas Rast wrote:
> +*WARNING:* All unstaged changes to the 'paths' are *irreversibly*
> +lost.

FWIW, as git checkout -- <path> is already doing that, and that
git-discard is clearly something meant as some UI sugar, I would make
that operation a "safe" porcelain by puting the discarded hunks in a
stash.

I'm shamelessly stealing this idea from Jeff, but it's probably an
excellent idea to have a strash¹. It makes git even safer to use,
especially to beginners, to whom we would talk about git-discard instead
of git checkout.

¹: stash-trash
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