git pull opinion

Hello,

I am not sure this is the best place to write about this. Anyway, we just switched a couple of repositories to git (from svn) here at work and one thing people find annoying is a pull into a dirty directory. Before the "stash" feature it was even worse but now we can type:

    git stash
    git pull
    git stash apply

But isn't that something we should be able to specify to the "pull" command ? Additionally and if I am not mistakn, those commands will create "dangling" commits and blobs. So one has to execute:

    git prune

Is there an "easier" way to pull into a dirty directory ? I am asking this to make sure I understand the problem and not because I find it annoying to type those 4 commands to perform a pull (although some of my colleagues do find that annoying :).

For now, I am recommanding to my colleagues to commit very often (even unfinished changes), pull, and then rebase the commits into a more meaningful commit before pushing. Which seems to be a good practice anyway,

Thank you for git,

- Aghiles.

ps; if someone is interested to hear what is the general opinion on switching to git from svn in our company, I could elaborate.