Re: git stash data loss

>> > Hrm. The problem is that after creating the stash, we then run "git
>> > reset --hard" to drop the changes that we just stashed. But that is not
>> > always accurate. It will not usually touch untracked files, but it might
>> > if they have D/F conflicts with tracked files. So we need to replace
>> > that "git reset --hard" with some safer command that will notice we are
>> > about to overwrite untracked files. But I am not sure what that command
>> > would be.
>> 
>> Is this something we still want to keep track of?
>
> Yeah, I think it is worth fixing. It's a somewhat rare case, but data
> loss is bad. I was hoping you would respond with "...and here is the
> magical incantation of git commands to make the working directory look
> like we want". I couldn't come up with one. We may need a new option to
> reset or read-tree.