From: Joachim B Haga <cjhaga@fys.uio.no>
Date: Thu, 04 Oct 2007 08:40:08 GMT
Subject: Re: making "git stash" safer to use
Message-ID: <858x6jff2v.fsf@lupus.ig3.net>
In-Reply-To: <200710032331.41385.bruno@clisp.org>

> Through a simple typo I lost modifications to 20 files:
>
>> >>>     $ git stash
>> >>>     $ git pull
>> >>>     $ git stash apply
>> >>>     $ git stash clean              # typo!
>> >>>     $ git stash clear              # fatal correction to typo!
>
> It is just too easy to lose your modifications by using "git stash".

What makes it most dangerous is that there is no differentiation
between a name and a command in the same position. I'd argue that 
either the command should be mandatory:

git stash save mywork
git stash apply mywork
git stash clear mywork
git stash mywork       # error

(we can still keep today's shortcuts "git stash" and "git stash apply", 
but only for the un-named case),

or that the command should be of the option type:

git stash mywork
git stash --apply mywork
git stash --clear mywork


-j.