From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2009 23:08:31 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC] New command: 'git snapshot'.
Message-ID: <7vy6wdkhzk.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20090210230054.GD26954@coredump.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 06:40:34PM -0200, Fabio Augusto Dal Castel wrote:
>
>> > If stashes were per-branch, then it would probably
>> > be pretty easy to build this snapshot tool on top of it.
>> 
>> Or the other way around <g>.
>> 
>> Remember that 'stash' is actually TWO commands in one:
>> * Save current state
>> * Reset to HEAD
>> 
>> My primary reason to use snapshots is to AVOID the second step.
>
> Doesn't that argue for "git stash --no-reset" or similar instead of a
> separate command?

How is it different from "git stash create"?