Re: [PATCH] Disconnect stash from its base commit

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Jul 2, 2008, 21:04 UTC
Message-ID: <7vprpw80bw.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20080702195401.GA17214@toroid.org>

Abhijit Menon-Sen <ams@toroid.org> writes:

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> At 2008-07-02 12:01:35 -0700, gitster@pobox.com wrote:
>>
>> 	But that imaginary "stash branch" command would always give you
>> 	the exact state you were in and creates a clean fork to finish
>> 	what you were doing, and continue.
>
> Nice idea. Something as simple as the appended diff?
>
> I reversed the stash/branch arguments so that one need specify only the
> branch name. Playing with it a little, it feels very useful.

I'd further suggest to delete the stash automatically when you create a new branch out of it.

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