[PATCH] stash: honor --no-overwrite-ignore when updating index
- From
Pushkar Singh <pushkarkumarsingh1970@gmail.com>
- Date
- Feb 2, 2026, 13:19 UTC
- Message-ID
- <20260202131921.15175-2-pushkarkumarsingh1970@gmail.com>
The stash code unconditionally cleared opts.preserve_ignored when updating the index, leaving a FIXME suggesting this should depend on an overwrite_ignore flag.
Introduce overwrite_ignore plumbing for git stash push/save and use it to control preserve_ignored during reset_tree(). Add a test to verify that --no-overwrite-ignore preserves ignored files.
This removes the long-standing FIXME and aligns stash behavior with checkout/reset/merge. --- builtin/stash.c | 11 ++++++++++- t/t3905-stash-include-untracked.sh | 13 +++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 23 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/builtin/stash.c b/builtin/stash.c index 193e3ea47a..82d10520fe 100644 --- a/builtin/stash.c +++ b/builtin/stash.c @@ -150,6 +150,7 @@ static int show_stat = 1; static int show_patch; static int show_include_untracked; static int use_index; +static int overwrite_ignore = 1; /* * w_commit is set to the commit containing the working tree @@ -360,7 +361,7 @@ static int reset_tree(struct object_id *i_tree, int update, int reset) opts.reset = reset ? UNPACK_RESET_PROTECT_UNTRACKED : 0; opts.update = update; if (update) - opts.preserve_ignored = 0; /* FIXME: !overwrite_ignore */ + opts.preserve_ignored = !overwrite_ignore; opts.fn = oneway_merge; if (unpack_trees(nr_trees, t, &opts)) @@ -1856,6 +1857,10 @@ static int push_stash(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix, N_("include untracked files in stash")), OPT_SET_INT('a', "all", &include_untracked, N_("include ignore files"), 2), + OPT_BOOL(0, "overwrite-ignore", &overwrite_ignore, + N_("update ignored files (default)")), + OPT_BOOL(0, "no-overwrite-ignore", &overwrite_ignore, + N_("do not update ignored files")), OPT_STRING('m', "message", &stash_msg, N_("message"), N_("stash message")), OPT_PATHSPEC_FROM_FILE(&pathspec_from_file), @@ -1959,6 +1964,10 @@ static int save_stash(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix, N_("include untracked files in stash")), OPT_SET_INT('a', "all", &include_untracked, N_("include ignore files"), 2), + OPT_BOOL(0, "overwrite-ignore", &overwrite_ignore, + N_("update ignored files (default)")), + OPT_BOOL(0, "no-overwrite-ignore", &overwrite_ignore, + N_("do not update ignored files")), OPT_STRING('m', "message", &stash_msg, "message", N_("stash message")), OPT_END() diff --git a/t/t3905-stash-include-untracked.sh b/t/t3905-stash-include-untracked.sh index 7704709054..9c5421cd76 100755 --- a/t/t3905-stash-include-untracked.sh +++ b/t/t3905-stash-include-untracked.sh @@ -427,4 +427,17 @@ test_expect_success 'stash -u ignores sub-repository' ' git stash -u ' +test_expect_success 'stash push --no-overwrite-ignore preserves ignored files' ' + echo ignored.txt >>.gitignore && + echo before >ignored.txt && + git add .gitignore && + git commit -m "add ignore" && + + echo after >ignored.txt && + git stash push --no-overwrite-ignore && + + test_path_is_file ignored.txt && + grep after ignored.txt +' + test_done
-- 2.43.0