Re: Bug report: Git Stash; spelling mistake of stash followed by a yes prints character 'y' infinite times.

From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: May 3, 2017, 09:47 UTC
Message-ID: <20170503094709.rn252pina4vdm6lv@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <CAOqCAXTN6_dR=+As_i6yxOL+A3dOzs4bM5Lzbj6qzyT_3ecRcw@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, May 03, 2017 at 03:16:06PM +0530, Rashmi Pai wrote:

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> Below are the steps to reproduce.
> 1. create a local branch and make some code changes in the same branch.
> 2. now checkout another branch. git says Your local changes to the
> following files would be overwritten by checkout.
> 3. Now do git stahs ( spelling mistake )
> 4. Now git says git: 'stahs' is not a git command. See 'git --help'.
> 
> Did you mean this?
> 
> stash

After this step git exits, and you're back at your shell prompt...

> 5. Now types yes. and you will see character 'y' getting printed
> infinite times!.

...so when you type "yes" here, it is running the "yes" program. Whose function is to print an infinite number of y's. See "man yes" for more details.

-Peff