From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2008 18:58:29 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] git-gc: skip stashes when expiring reflogs
Message-ID: <7v4p7qzi22.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0806181624120.6439@racer>

Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:

> On Tue, 17 Jun 2008, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>
>> Of course,
>> 
>> 	$ git stash apply stashed-longer
>> 
>> would work but that is by accident, as at that point what you are feeding
>> "git stash" command is not really a name of a ref that is a stash.
>
> It would not be by accident.  It would work because we designed git-stash 
> to use refs to store working-directory vs index changes, and this command 
> line you wrote was _exactly_ what I intended.

Well, it is.  For normal stash oriented operations such as

    $ git stash list stashed-longer
    $ git stash apply stashed-longer@{22}

won't work on them.  Only the quoted form works and that _is_ by accident.