From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Sun, 18 Apr 2010 23:11:21 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/3] stash: Don't overwrite files that have gone from the index
Message-ID: <7vpr1wtkyu.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20100418182805.GB29329@hashpling.org>

Charles Bailey <charles@hashpling.org> writes:

> To be complete, any work tree file which differs from HEAD needs to be
> saved, regardless of whether it still appears in the index or not.

Sounds quite sane.

> -			git add -u &&
> +			git diff --name-only -z HEAD | git update-index -z --add --remove --stdin &&

Paths that exist in HEAD but not in the index will be caught with this;
what about paths that do not exist in HEAD but is in the index---they will
be kept in the index so they are fine as well.  Good.

Thanks.