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Re: [PATCH] Document 'stash clear' recovery via unreachable commits

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Aug 9, 2009, 01:25 UTC
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Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch> writes:
> Add an example to the stash documentation that shows how to quickly
> find candidate commits among the 'git fsck --unreachable' output.
Thanks.
> Unless you have merges of branch names containing WIP, or edit your
> merge messages to say WIP, there will be no false positives.

That may be true, but I suspect that people's stash entries that are worth saving are given their own messages with "git stash save 'message'" and do not necessarily say WIP. I wish if there were a better way to identify them, but I do not think of any offhand.

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