Re: Better usability of stash refs
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Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
- Date
- Jun 19, 2017, 20:56 UTC
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On Mon, Jun 19, 2017 at 03:32:54PM -0500, Robert Dailey wrote:
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> To drop a stash, I have to do this (example):
>
> $ git stash drop stash@{3}
>
> Using the full "stash@{N}" seems superfluous since the documentation
> states it must be a stash in the first place. It would make more sense
> (and be quicker to type) to do:
>
> $ git stash drop 3
>
> Is there a trick I can use to make this shorthand possible? I thought
> about creating a "s" script for "stash" that intercepted the
> parameters for only a couple of stash sub-commands and created the
> ref, but that seems a lot of work.
>
> Any productivity tips here? Thanks in advance.Junio mentioned that this is already possible. I suspect the problem may be that your Git is not recent enough. It was added in a56c8f5aa (stash: allow stashes to be referenced by index only, 2016-10-24), which is in v2.11.0.
-Peff