From: Harald Nordgren <haraldnordgren@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2026 19:33:20 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] checkout: add --autostash option for branch switching
Message-ID: <20260313193320.42832-1-haraldnordgren@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <xmqqv7ez6455.fsf@gitster.g>

> Almost all of the above is now stale, as we no longer call this the
> "autostash" feature.  It turned into a project to vastly improve the
> "checkout --merge" option, so the proposed log message needs to be
> revamped to match.

My feeling is that this feature will drift far away from what I initially
needed. I have never used 'checkout -m' but stash->checkout-unstash is a
pattern I use a lot.

I wonder with how complicated this might turn out, if it would be better to
have this as a separate feature called autostash (mirroring the same
feature from git pull rebase which I have enabled).

Harald