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Re: [PATCH] git-stash: Display help message if git-stash is run with wrong sub-commands

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Dec 3, 2007, 02:48 UTC
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"Kevin Leung" <kevinlsk@gmail.com> writes:
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> The current git-stash behaviour is very error prone to typos. For example,
> if you typed "git-stash llist", git-stash would think that you wanted to
> save to a stash named "llist", but in fact, you meant "git-stash list".
>
> Signed-off-by: Kevin Leung <kevinlsk@gmail.com>
Thanks.  Looks good.  except...
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> @@ -195,6 +195,10 @@ show)
>         shift
>         show_stash "$@"
>         ;;
> +save)
> +       shift
> +       save_stash "$@" && git-reset --hard
> +       ;;
... this should be "$*" as it was originally spelled.
Save this script in foo.sh and run "foo.sh a b c" to see what I mean.
#!/bin/sh
foo () {
	msg="$1"
	echo "Foo here <$1>"
}

foo "$@" foo "$*"

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  1. git-stash: Display help message if git-stash is run with wrong sub-commandsKevin Leung, Dec 3, 2007
  2. Junio C HamanoDec 3, 2007
  3. Kevin LeungDec 3, 2007
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