From: Paul Ebermann <paul.ebermann@esperanto.de>
Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2011 16:11:41 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] stash: Add --clean option to stash and remove all untracked files
Message-ID: <4E00C2BD.6000903@esperanto.de>
In-Reply-To: <20110621141843.GA18700@sigill.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King schrieb:

> I would be happy with something that indicated "untracked files in
> addition to the regular stash". I just think it should be about "add
> these other files into the stash", not "end up in this directory state".
> 
> Something like "--untracked-too" fits that, but is horribly ugly. I also
> think it makes sense to have some way of stashing everything, including
> excluded files.  That could just be "-x" in conjunction with whatever
> this option is (which matches "git clean"), or it could be a separate
> option name (like "--all" or "--ignored").
> 
> Things like "git stash --all" or "git stash --thorough" indicate that
> you are stashing more, but it's hard to remember what the "more" is.
> 
> So I don't have any brilliant suggestions. Doing:
> 
>   $ git stash --untracked-too --ignored-too
> 
> is fairly clear, but somehow strikes me as unnecessarily ugly and
> verbose.

I think `--also-untracked` sounds better. It is even longer, though.

There could also be `--only-untracked`, which would stack only the
untracked files (and let changes of tracked files there).


Paŭlo