Re: [PATCH v3 0/5] stash: support pathspec argument

> Thomas Gummerer <t.gummerer@gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > I'm almost convinced of special casing "-p".  (Maybe I'm easy to
> > convince as well, because it would be convenient ;) ) However it's a
> > bit weird that now "git stash -p file" would work, but "git stash -m
> > message" wouldn't.  Maybe we should do it the other way around, and
> > only special case "-q", and see if there is an non option argument
> > after that?  From a glance at the options that's the only one where
> > "git stash -<option> <verb>" could make sense to the user.
> 
> Special-casing the allowed cases makes it easier to change the behavior
> in the future if needed: it's easy to add special cases and it doesn't
> break backward compatibility.
> 
> So, if we don't have a good reason to do otherwise, I'd rather stay on
> the future-proof side.