From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2009 05:05:54 GMT
Subject: Re: [BUG] git stash refuses to save after "add -N"
Message-ID: <20090831050554.GA17197@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <7vljl0lgms.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 10:03:07PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> >   - "-f" is kind of vague. Would people expect it to force aspects of
> >     the stash? Should it be "--intent-as-empty"?
> 
> I am not sure if asking for positive confirmation with "-f" is even worth
> it.  As you pointed out in your earlier message, which prompted me to
> respond with a patch, when this codepath is exercised, the user is in a
> rush, and I do not see what else the user would want to do other than
> including it in the stash by rerunning with -f.

I guess it was just to mitigate my fear that we are somehow creating a
stash that will confuse people when they apply it. But really that fear
is probably unjustified.

-Peff