From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2017 06:20:51 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/1] mention git stash push first in the man page
Message-ID: <20171021062050.wp2fdjwmjhwcorln@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.21.1710200403260.30185@localhost.localdomain>

On Fri, Oct 20, 2017 at 04:04:10AM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:

> > > I don't think there's any reason to go slow in marking something as
> > > deprecated. It's the part where we follow up and remove or change the
> > > feature that must take a while.
> >
> > Makes sense, let me drop it from the synopsis then.
> 
>   what, exactly, is the oft-referred-to issue with how "git stash
> save" works that is being addressed with the new syntax of "git stash
> push"?

"stash save" soaks up all arguments as the stash message, so it's not
possible to specify pathspecs. "push" uses "-m <msg>" for the stash
message, and can accept pathspecs.

-Peff