From: Wincent Colaiuta <win@wincent.com>
Date: Tue, 05 Feb 2008 12:12:06 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] git-stash: alias 'list' to 'ls' and 'clear' to 'rm'
Message-ID: <773F09A7-0871-4950-BDE4-D54E822C8203@wincent.com>
In-Reply-To: <20080205112000.GD29545@mail.stoakes.net>

El 5/2/2008, a las 12:20, Tim Stoakes escribió:

> Wincent Colaiuta(win@wincent.com)@050208-12:06:
>> El 5/2/2008, a las 11:38, Tim Stoakes escribi?:
>>
>>> clear::
>>> +rm::
>>> 	Remove all the stashed states. Note that those states will then
>>> 	be subject to pruning, and may be difficult or impossible to  
>>> recover.
>>
>> Isn't "rm" a bit misleading here? Seeing as the clear subcommand  
>> really
>> does an "rm -rf".
>
> $ git stash clear foo
> git stash clear with parameters is unimplemented
>
> It appears that 'clear' is intended to behave like 'rm', however, it
> isn't implemented yet.

No, I don't think it was ever _intended_ to behave like rm. It does  
pretty much what the man page says, clears all stashed states and that  
was always its intention.

But lots of people have said that they'd like to be able to pop only  
to topmost stash off the stack, or delete a specific stash, and some  
have reported being caught by surprise and clearing all stashes when  
they only wanted to delete one of them. There were patch(es) to the  
mailing list a while back teaching "git reflog" to delete specific  
entries, and seeing as "git stash" is built on top of reflogs the idea  
was that if someone wants to implement a subcommand for deleting  
specific stashes (or a push/pop kind of thing) then the reflog stuff  
would enable that. I think the refog patch(es) was/were from Dscho. I  
can't remember who/if has followed up with push/pop/delete patches for  
"git stash".

Cheers,
Wincent