Re: making "git stash" safer to use

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Oct 3, 2007, 21:36 UTC
Message-ID: <7vwsu3dgnu.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <200710032331.41385.bruno@clisp.org>

Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org> writes:

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>> While we're at it, I wish 'git stash clear' would take an optional
>> argument that says which stash(es) to clear, rather than blindly clearing
>> the entire stash.
>
> It would help if git would store which of the stashes were applied since
> they were created and which were not. A stash that was not yet applied must
> be considered "precious", whereas a stash that was applied is redundant,
> right?

Wrong. I would say all stash entries are precious unless you explicitly say "I'm done with it". The problem is that we do not have a way to say it explicitly.