From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Sun, 09 Aug 2009 01:25:55 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Document 'stash clear' recovery via unreachable commits
Message-ID: <7veirlbwws.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <9e8ddf7c6c4d4df4150bff0467b461bfff92a401.1249778711.git.trast@student.ethz.ch>

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.