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Re: git checkout --autostash and git branch --autopop

From
Denton Liu <liu.denton@gmail.com>
Date
Dec 12, 2019, 18:12 UTC
Message-ID
<20191212181244.GA36165@generichostname>
In-Reply-To
<20191212180901.GA35927@generichostname>
On Thu, Dec 12, 2019 at 10:09:01AM -0800, Denton Liu wrote:
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> Hi rottis,
> 
> On Thu, Dec 12, 2019 at 02:19:50PM +0200, rottis@fea.st wrote:
> > Similar to the 'git rebase --autostash', running 'git checkout --autostash' would automatically stash uncommitted changes for the
> > current branch.  then running 'git branch --autopop' would automatically apply an automatic stash when switching to a branch that had one.
> 
> I currently have a WIP version of this feature but I haven't had enough
> time to polish it off (tests and docs). The last RFC round can be seen
> here[1] if you want to test it out. It seems to work well enough for
> personal use.

Sorry, my mistake. I misread your message; my topic was for `git merge --autostash`. However, it does generalise the autostash machinery so perhaps it'll be simpler to implement it into checkout in the future, if that's desired?

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