From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Fri, 07 May 2010 16:11:44 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] git-stash.txt: Add example "Using stash selectively"
Message-ID: <7v8w7vhetb.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <87pr194e3v.fsf_-_@jondo.cante.net>

Jari Aalto <jari.aalto@cante.net> writes:

>> While the above is not _wrong_ per-se, it was somewhat hard to understand
>> for me without a description on _why_ you might want to do this.  It
>> didn't help that "put only selected files" really meant "get rid of
>> selected _changes_ from the working tree and the index temporarily".
>
> This demonstrates the difference between the end-user and developer. The
> end-used think in term of tangible objects: "I have files, I need to
> stash some of them".

Not really.  You just demonstrated that you ignored "partial add".  It is
not so unusual for a user to need to express "I have a file, and I have
two kinds of changes to it.  The ones that I need now and the ones I need
to postpone".