From: Derrick Stolee <stolee@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 08 Sep 2021 13:15:15 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] stash: restore untracked files AFTER restoring tracked files
Message-ID: <53a16340-561b-dc67-5562-31d16460da84@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <ac8ca07481d2ed4156036c2441d10712a1b92b0e.1631065427.git.gitgitgadget@gmail.com>

On 9/7/2021 9:43 PM, Elijah Newren via GitGitGadget wrote:
> From: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
> 
> If a user deletes a file and places a directory of untracked files
> there, then stashes all these changes, the untracked directory of files
> cannot be restored until after the corresponding file in the way is
> removed.  So, restore changes to tracked files before restoring
> untracked files.
> 
> There is no similar problem to worry about in the opposite directory,

s/directory/direction/ ?

> because untracked files are always additive.  Said another way, there's
> no way to "stash a removal of an untracked file" because if an untracked
> file is removed, git simply doesn't know about it.

Makes sense.

Thanks,
-Stolee